Title The logic cf compromise in Mexico : how the countryside was key to the emergence of authoritarianism / Gladys I. McCormick

Published Chapel Hill [North Carolina] : University of North Carolina Press, [2016] [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2016

Click on the following:
EBSCO eBooks

Copies

Description 1 online resource (1 PDF (xiv, 284 pages)) : map Contents Introduction -- The promise of Cardenismo in rural Morelos -- The limits of Cardenismo : the emergence of Ruben Jaramillo -- The logic of compromise : the forgotten tale of Antonio Jaramillo -- Undoing of rural autonomy : the rise and fall of Porfirio Jaramillo -- A laboratory for state-sponsored violence, 1952-1958 -- Taking history forward : the institutionalization of authoritarianism, 1958-1962 -- Searching for new heroes, 1962 and beyond -- Conclusion Summary In this political history of twentieth-century Mexico, Gladys McCormick argues that the key to understanding the immense power of the long-ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) is to be found in the countryside. Using newly available sources, including declassified secret police files and oral histories, McCormick looks at large-scale sugar cooperatives in Morelos and Puebla, two major agricultural regions that serve as microcosms of events across the nation. She argues that Mexico's rural peoples, despite shouldering much of the financial burden of modernization policies, formed the PRI regime's most fervent base of support. McCormick demonstrates how the PRI exploited this support, using key parts of the countryside to test and refine instruments of control--including the regulation of protest, manipulation of collective memories of rural communities, and selective application of violence against critics--that it later employed in other areas, both rural and urban. With three peasant leaders, brothers named Ruben, Porfirio, and Antonio Jaramillo, at the heart of her story, McCormick draws a capacious picture of peasant activism, disillusion, and compromise in state formation, revealing the basis for an enduring political culture dominated by the PRI. On a broader level, McCormick demonstrates the connections among modern state building in Latin America, the consolidation of new forms of authoritarian rule, and the deployment of violence on all sides Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-272) and index Notes Print version record Subject Jaramillo, Rubén M., 1900-1962 Jaramillo, Ruben M., 1900-1962 Jaramillo, Rubén M., 1900-1962 Partido Revolucionario Institucional -- History Partido Revolucionario Institucional State-sponsored terrorism -- Mexico Political corruption -- Mexico POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General. HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico. Political corruption Politics and government Rural conditions State-sponsored terrorism Puebla (Mexico : State) -- Rural conditions Morelos (Mexico : State) -- Rural conditions Mexico -- Rural conditions Puebla (Mexico : State) -- Politics and government -- 20th century Morelos (Mexico : State) -- Politics and government -- 20th century Mexico -- Politics and government -- 20th century. Mexico Mexico -- Morelos (State) Mexico -- Puebla (State) Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469627762 1469627760 9781469627755 1469627752

  Permalink