Jennie Purnell

Popular Movements and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico

The Agraristas and Cristeros of Michoacan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This radical reconsideration of revolutionary Mexico examines why some peasants sided with the Church while others aligned themselves with the state in the Cristero rebellion, thereby demonstrating the importance of local history in determining peasant r

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"Purnell has produced an analysis that is new and helpful not only to our understanding popular agency in the Revolution but for writing history from below--especially the history of state formation as a contested, social phenomenon.--Mary Kay Vaughan, University of Illinois at Chicago

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 153mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780822323143
• ISBN-10: 0822323141
• Artikelnr.: 21895642

Autorenporträt

Jennie Purnell is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston College.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. What Makes Peasants Counterrevolutionary?
> 2. Liberals, Indians, and the Catholic Church in Nineteenth-Century
Michoacan
3. State Formation in Revolutionary Michoacan
4. The Cristiada: Elites and Popular Groups in Rebellion against the
Revolutionary State
5. The Agraristas of the Zacapu Region
6. Catholics, Cristeros, and Agraristas in the Purepecha Highlands
7. The Cristeros of Northwestern Michoacan
8. Popular Groups, Political Identities, and the State in Mexico: The
Cristiada in Comparative Perspective
Notes
Bibliography
Index