The Logic of Compromise in Mexico (eBook)

How the Countryside Was Key to the Emergence of Authoritarianism

Gladys I. McCormick (Autor)

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2016
300 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-2775-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Gladys McCormick is assistant professor of history at Syracuse University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.2.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 1 map, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: activism in Mexico • Adolfo López Mateos • Adolfo Ruiz Cortines • Agrarian reform in Mexico • Antonio Jaramillo • Atencingo • Atencingo Ejidal Complex • Authoritarianism in Mexico • Authoritarian modernization in twentieth-century Latin America • Cardenismo • Central Intelligence Agency in Mexico • Chietla • Clientelism • Clientelism in Mexico • Cold War in Mexico • Cold War in the Mexican countryside • Collective memory • Communally-owned lands in Mexico • Complicity • Complicity and corruption in rural Mexico • Confederación de Trabajadores de Mexico • Confederación Nacional Campesina • Cooperative Society of Peasants and Workers of the Emiliano Zapata Sugar Mill • Corruption in rural Mexico • Countryside in Mexico • DFS in Mexico • Dirección Federal de Seguridad • Dirty war in Mexico • Doña Lola • Economic development in rural Mexico • Economic miracle in Mexico • Ejidatarios • ejido • enthnographic research in Mexico • Epifania Zuñiga • ethnographic research in Morelos • ethnographic research in Puebla • Eugenio Prado • Federal Security Directorate in Mexico • Félix Serdán • Golden Age in Mexico • Heir of Emiliano Zapata • Heroes in rural Mexico • historical memory in Mexico • industrialization in Mexico • Institutional Revolutionary Party • Jojutla • Lázaro Cárdenas • Manuel Avila Camacho • Maximino Avila Camacho • Mexican agrarian reform • Mexican authoritarianism • Mexican clientelism • Mexican Cold War • Mexican Communist Party • Mexican corruption • Mexican countryside • Mexican economic miracle • Mexican industrialization • Mexican modernization • Mexican political violence • Mexican rural heroes • Mexican state terror • Mexican sugar industry • Miguel Alemán • Modernization in Mexico • Mónico Rodríguez • Morelos • Movimiento de Liberación Nacional, Central Campesina Independiente • Oral histories in Mexico • Partido Agrario-Obrero Mexicano • Partido Comunista Mexicano • Patronage in Mexico • Patron-client relations in Mexico • peasant organizations in Mexico • Peasants in rural Mexico • Political assassinations in rural Mexico • Political violence in Mexico • Porfirio Jaramillo • PRI • PRI in Mexico • Puebla • Repression in Mexico • Rubén Jaramillo • rural activists in Mexico • Rural Mexico • Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Industria Azucarera • Sociedad Cooperativa de Ejidatarios y Obreros del Ingenio Emiliano Zapata • State-sponsored violence in Mexico • state terror in Mexico • Sugar cooperatives in Mexico • Sugar industry in Mexico • Sugar production cooperative in Mexico • Tlaquiltenango • Vidal Diaz Muñoz • William Jenkins • worker organizations in Mexico • Workers in rural Mexico • Zacatepec
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-2775-2 / 1469627752
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-2775-5 / 9781469627755