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American Encounters/Global Interactions Ser.: Dictablanda : Politics, Work, and Culture in Mexico, 1938-1968 by Benjamin T. Smith (2014, Hardcover)
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It also proposes bold, multidisciplinary approaches to critical problems in contemporary politics. The contributors to this groundbreaking collection revise earlier interpretations, arguing that state power was not based exclusively on hegemony, corporatism, or violence.
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PublisherDuke University Press
ISBN-100822356317
ISBN-139780822356318
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Number of Pages464 Pages
Publication NameDictablanda : Politics, Work, and Culture in Mexico, 1938-1968
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2014
SubjectLatin America / Mexico, World / Caribbean & Latin American
TypeTextbook
AuthorBenjamin T. Smith
Subject AreaPolitical Science, History
SeriesAmerican Encounters/Global Interactions Ser.
FormatHardcover
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Item Weight26.3 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
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LCCN2013-030268
Reviews Dictablanda provides a rich interpretation of the so-called Golden Age of PRI rule. The collection's regional, thematic, and methodological sweep is impressive, as is the roster of contributors and the painstaking research that each has conducted in local, regional, national, and international archives. Dictablanda is certain to fill gaps, complicate existing narratives, and become a cornerstone of scholarship for years to come., Combining two generations of scholarship in the historiography of postrevolutionary Mexico, this collection of essays is a masterpiece. It constitutes the first-ever effort to study in detail the heyday of Mexico's official revolutionary party from the oil expropriation of 1938 to the government's massacre of student protesters at Mexico City's Tlatelolco Square in 1968....it should be required reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century Latin America., This timely edited volume explores how the country that launched the first social revolution of the twentieth century became one of the world's most unequal and least democratic societies. Its regional and methodological sweep is impressive. Taken together, the eighteen chapters challenge the conventional wisdom in many ways. Graduate students in particular will mine this volume for promising leads; indeed, this book will likely inspire a wave of interdisciplinary research on the period., This ambitious volume offers a provocative and timely reconsideration of Mexican state formation. Its diverse and empirically rich case studies examine politics on the ground, providing unusual insights into the mechanisms of Mexico's authoritarian regime. This book will be indispensable reading for anyone seeking to understand the ruling party's astonishing ability to retain power and countless challenges to its legitimacy., " Dictablanda provides a rich interpretation of the so-called Golden Age of PRI rule. The collection's regional, thematic, and methodological sweep is impressive, as is the roster of contributors and the painstaking research that each has conducted in local, regional, national, and international archives. Dictablanda is certain to fill gaps, complicate existing narratives, and become a cornerstone of scholarship for years to come."-- Gilbert M. Joseph , coauthor of Mexico's Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century, [A]n invaluable resource for any nonspecialist seeking a rigorous and in-depth consideration of the topic. . . . A necessary addition to any respectable collection on Latin American history or 20th-century politics. . . . Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above., Dictablanda 's publication marks a watershed in the study of postrevolutionary Mexico. ... The collection's theoretical pluralism and thematic diversity defies easy characterization., Dictablanda is a must read for students of Mexican history and politics, and provides a useful synthesis of the emerging works on this under-researched period, [T]his volume brings together important case studies and contributes to a debate about how to conceptualize the era. It is essential reading for scholars of post-revolutionary Mexico.
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal972.08/2
Table Of ContentPreface / Paul Gillingham vii Acknowledgments xv Glossary of Institutions and Acronyms xvii Introduction: The Paradoxes of Revolution / Paul Gillingham and Benjamin T. Smith 1 High and Low Politics 45 1. The End of the Mexican Revolution? From Cárdenas to Aveila Camacho, 1937-1941 / Alan Knight 47 2. Intransigence, Anticommunism, and Reconciliation: Church/State Relations in Transition / Roberto Blancarte 70 3. Camouflaging the State: The Army and the Limits of Hegemony in PRIista Mexico, 1940-1960 / Thomas Rath 89 4. Strongmen and State Weakness / Rogelio Hernández Rodríguez 108 5. Tropical Passion in the Desert: Gonzalo N. Santos and Local Elections in Nothern San Luis Potosí, 1943-1958 / Wil G. Pansters 126 6. "We Don't Have Arms, but We Do Have Balls": Fraud, Violience, and Popular Agency in Elections / Paul Gillingham 149 Work and Resource Regulation 173 7. The Golden Age of Charrismo: Workers, Braceros, and the Political Machinery of Postrevolutionary Mexico / Michael Snodgrass 175 8. The Forgotten Jaramillo: Building a Social Base of Support for Authoritarianism in Rural Mexico / Gladys McCormick 196 9. Community, Crony Capitalism, and Fortress Conservation in Mexican Forests / Christopher R. Boyer 217 10. Advocate or Cacica ? Guadalupe Urzúa Flores: Modernizer and Peasant Political Leader in Jalisco / Maria Teresa Fernández Aceves 236 11. Building a State on the Cheap: Taxation, Social Movements, and Politics / Benjamin T. Smith 255 Culture and Ideology 277 12. The End of Revolutionary Anthropology? Notes on Indigenismo / Guillermo de la Peña 279 13. Cooling to Cinema and Warming to Television: State Mass Media Policy, 1940--1964 / Andrew Paxman 299 14. Pistoleros, Ley Fuga , and Uncertainty in Public Debates about Murder in Twentieth-Century Mexico / Pablo Piccato 321 15. Rural Education, Political Radicalism, and Normalista Identity in Mexico after 1940 / Tanalis Padilla 341 16. The Rise of a "National Student Problem" in 1956 / Jaime M. Pensado 360 Final Comments. Contextualizing the Regime: What 1938-1968 Tells Us about Mexico, Power, and Latin America's Twentieth Century / Jeffrey W. Rubin 379 Select Bibliography 397 Contributors 427 Index 429
SynopsisIn 1910 Mexicans rebelled against an imperfect dictatorship; after 1940 they ended up with what some called the perfect dictatorship. A single party ruled Mexico for over seventy years, holding elections and talking about revolution while overseeing one of the world's most inequitable economies. The contributors to this groundbreaking collection revise earlier interpretations, arguing that state power was not based exclusively on hegemony, corporatism, or violence. Force was real, but it was also exercised by the ruled. It went hand-in-hand with consent, produced by resource regulation, political pragmatism, local autonomies and a popular veto. The result was a dictablanda : a soft authoritarian regime. This deliberately heterodox volume brings together social historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists to offer a radical new understanding of the emergence and persistence of the modern Mexican state. It also proposes bold, multidisciplinary approaches to critical problems in contemporary politics. With its blend of contested elections, authoritarianism, and resistance, Mexico foreshadowed the hybrid regimes that have spread across much of the globe. Dictablanda suggests how they may endure. Contributors . Roberto Blancarte, Christopher R. Boyer, Guillermo de la Peña, María Teresa Fernández Aceves, Paul Gillingham, Rogelio Hernández Rodríguez, Alan Knight, Gladys McCormick, Tanalís Padilla, Wil G. Pansters, Andrew Paxman, Jaime Pensado, Pablo Piccato, Thomas Rath, Jeffrey W. Rubin, Benjamin T. Smith, Michael Snodgrass, In 1910 Mexicans rebelled against an imperfect dictatorship; after 1940 they ended up with what some called the perfect dictatorship. A single party ruled Mexico for over seventy years, holding elections and talking about revolution while overseeing one of the world's most inequitable economies. The contributors to this groundbreaking collection revise earlier interpretations, arguing that state power was not based exclusively on hegemony, corporatism, or violence. Force was real, but it was also exercised by the ruled. It went hand-in-hand with consent, produced by resource regulation, political pragmatism, local autonomies and a popular veto. The result was a dictablanda a soft authoritarian regime. This deliberately heterodox volume brings together social historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists to offer a radical new understanding of the emergence and persistence of the modern Mexican state. It also proposes bold, multidisciplinary approaches to critical problems in contemporary politics. With its blend of contested elections, authoritarianism, and resistance, Mexico foreshadowed the hybrid regimes that have spread across much of the globe. Dictablanda suggests how they may endure. Contributors . Roberto Blancarte, Christopher R. Boyer, Guillermo de la Pe a, Mar a Teresa Fern ndez Aceves, Paul Gillingham, Rogelio Hern ndez Rodr guez, Alan Knight, Gladys McCormick, Tanal s Padilla, Wil G. Pansters, Andrew Paxman, Jaime Pensado, Pablo Piccato, Thomas Rath, Jeffrey W. Rubin, Benjamin T. Smith, Michael Snodgrass
LC Classification NumberF1235.D53 2014
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