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Genre/Form: | History |
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Named Person: | Lázaro Cárdenas; Lázaro Cárdenas; Lázaro Cárdenas; Lázaro Cárdenas; Lázaro Cárdenas |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Marjorie Becker |
ISBN: | 0520084187 9780520084186 0520084195 9780520084193 |
OCLC Number: | 31328505 |
Description: | xix, 188 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
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. |
Responsibility: | Marjorie Becker. |
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Abstract:
This work reconstructs the cultural encounters which led to Mexico's post-revolutionary government. It sets aside the mythology surrounding president Lazaro Cardenas to reveal his dilemma: until he and his followers understood peasant culture, they could not govern.
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