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Author Becker, Marjorie, 1952-

Title Setting the Virgin on fire : Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán peasants, and the redemption of the Mexican Revolution / Marjorie Becker
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 188 pages) : maps
Contents Introduction: official history and the myth of secular redemption -- A culture of purity and redemption -- From the margins of purity to the margins of danger -- Call out a posse, gather up their music, teach them to sing: the reinvention of the Indian in postrevolutionary Michoacán -- Revolutionary lessons, I: purity up in smoke -- Revolutionary lessons, II: the compensations of Indianism -- Some lessons of their own -- An end to the innocence -- Conclusion: the redemption of the Mexican Revolution
Summary "Provides convincing revision of the 'myth of secular redemption' surrounding Lázaro Cárdenas and his program of land distribution to the campesinos. Operating on a 'stripped-down image of land-hungry peasants,' Cárdenas and his supporters underestimated the difficulty of gaining peasant allegiance to the post-revolutionary government and initially failed to understand that they were confronting a cultural as well as an economic problem as they tried to extend revolutionary hegemony"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. http://www.loc.gov/hlas
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-184) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Cárdenas, Lázaro, 1895-1970 -- Relations with peasantry
SUBJECT Cárdenas, Lázaro, 1895-1970 fast
Cárdenas, Lázaro, (1895-1970) -- Et la paysannerie. ram
Cárdenas, Lázaro. swd
Subject Peasants -- Mexico -- Michoacán de Ocampo -- History -- 20th century
Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Michoacán de Ocampo -- Government relations
Political culture -- Mexico -- Michoacán de Ocampo -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY.
Indians of Mexico -- Government relations
Peasants
Political culture
Politics and government
Relations with peasantry
Social aspects
Ländlicher Raum
Politische Krise
Plattelandsbevolking.
Indianen.
Mexicaanse Revolutie.
Indiens -- Relations avec l'État -- Mexique -- Michoacán de Ocampo.
Paysannerie -- Mexique -- Michoacán de Ocampo -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Culture politique -- Mexique -- Michoacán de Ocampo -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
SUBJECT Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1910-1946. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084613
Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920 -- Social aspects
Subject Mexico
Mexico -- Michoacán de Ocampo
Staat Michoacán
Mexique -- 1910-1920 (Révolution)
Mexique -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1910-1946.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 94040327
ISBN 9780520914353
052091435X
0585299455
9780585299457
0520084187
9780520084186
0520084195
9780520084193