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Revolution in Mexico's Heartland
This carefully researched and richly detailed case study explores the most violent phase of the Mexican Revolution in the key state of Puebla. This book explains the tension between the forces that represented the modernizing centralized state and those who revolted and chose local autonomy. Because of its industry, resources, transportation, and large population during the Revolution, Puebla provides an excellent measuring stick for the rest of the nation during this conflict. David G. LaFrance examines politics, warfare, and state building within the context of autonomy, as well as the military, political, and economic changes that occurred in the name of the Revolution.
The Roots of Conservatism in Mexico
The Roots of Conservatism is the first attempt to ask why over the past two centuries so many Mexican peasants have opted to ally with conservative groups rather than their radical counterparts. Blending socioeconomic history, cultural analysis, and political narrative, Smith’s study begins with the late Bourbon period and moves through the early republic, the mid-nineteenth-century Reforma, the Porfiriato, and the Revolution, when the Mixtecs rejected Zapatista offers of land distribution, ending with the armed religious uprising known as the “last Cristiada,” a desperate Cold War bid to rid the region of impious “communist” governance. In recounting this long tradition of regional conservatism, Smith emphasizes the influence of religious belief, church ritual, and lay-clerical relations both on social relations and on political affiliation. He posits that many Mexican peasants embraced provincial conservatism, a variant of elite or metropolitan conservatism, which not only comprised ideas on property, hierarchy, and the state, but also the overwhelming import of the church to maintaining this system.
Mexican Political Biographies, 1884–1934
Here is an authoritative reference work that makes biographies of prominent Mexican national politicians from the period 1884–1934 available in English. Like the author's biographical directory for the years 1935–2009, it draws on many years of research in Mexico and the United States and seeks not only to provide accurate biographical information about each entry but also, where possible and appropriate, to connect these politicians to more recent leadership generations. Thus, Mexican Political Biographies, 1884-1934 not only is a useful historical source but also provides additional information on the family backgrounds of many contemporary figures. The work includes those figures who ...
La larga marcha hacia una regulación de calidad en publicidad oficial en México
El propósito de este libro es someter a debate desde el concepto mismo de publicidad oficial, hasta los requisitos que debe tener una adecuada regulación de la misma para asegurar que no sea un dique para el ejercicio de los derechos de libertad de expresión y de información en un contexto de pluralidad de medios. El tema se aborda tanto desde una perspectiva comparada, como de nuestra historia reciente, considerando los distintos momentos por los que ha transitado la intención de regular la publicidad oficial. El libro está organizado alrededor de tres apartados: 1) la discusión sobre la normatividad que regula a la publicidad oficial, tomando en cuenta referencias internacionales, sobre todo latinoamericanas; 2) el desarrollo de la regulación sobre publicidad oficial en México, poniendo especial énfasis en el proceso reciente que derivó en la promulgación de una Ley General de Comunicación Social que fue cuestionada por no cumplir con los estándares internacionales y 3) una reflexión sobre el inadecuado desempeño de la publicidad oficial en México, así como sobre el papel de los medios de comunicación en el contexto actual.
Militarism, Ethnicity, and Politics in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, 1917-1930
In the wake of the Mexican Revolution, citizens in many parts of Mexico experienced turbulent and uncertain times. This book tells the story of how the people of the Sierra Norte de Puebla emerged from those traumatic years and came to terms with the many challenges facing them in the decade that followed. It also examines the phenomenon of caciquismo in the postrevolutionary period as seen in the career of one powerful individual. Gabriel Barrios Cabrera, leader of the Brigada Serrana, rose from rural obscurity in the tiny village of Cuacuila to a position of unprecedented military strength during the Revolution, and throughout the 1920s he and his brother Demetrio came to enjoy the confide...
Heroes and Hero Cults in Latin America
Latin American history traditionally has been defined by larger-than-life heroes such as S�mon Bol�var, Emiliano Zapata, and Evita Per�n. Recent scholarship, however, tends to emphasize social and cultural factors rather than great leaders. In this new collection, Samuel Brunk and Ben Fallaw bring heroes back to the center of the debate, arguing that heroes not only shape history, they also "tell us a great deal about the places from which they come." The original essays in this collection examine ten modern Latin American heroes whose charisma derived from the quality of their relationships with admirers, rather than their innate personal qualities. The rise of mass media, for instanc...
Ejército Libertador
El año de 1915 fue decisivo en la Revolución Mexicana. Al derrocar a Huerta y desmontar el aparato burocrático militar de la oligarquía, la rebelión cruzó el umbral del antiguo orden y sobrevino la turbulencia en todo el sistema social. El ejército de los campesinos revolucionarios, Ejército Libertador, ocupó la capital de la República desde fines de 1914 hasta agosto de 1915, y se abrieron otros horizontes posibles: alianza de la revolución del Sur y la revolución del Norte; unidad de los pobres del campo y los pobres de la ciudad. Fue el año de las grandes batallas, en todos los planos. Los surianos impulsaron con decisión las luchas económicas y sociales, políticas e ideol...
La Cristiada
La Cristiada (1926-1929 y 1932-1938), movimiento autónomo de las masas, sobre todo de las masas campesinas, desempeña un papel excepcionalmente importante en la historia mexicana, a causa de su envergadura, de su duración y de su carácter popular./ Los cristeros, su ejército y los factores de su reclutamiento, su gobierno, su guerra, su ideología y su religión.
