{"product_id":"dictablanda-9780822356318","title":"Dictablanda","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1910 Mexicans rebelled against an imperfect dictatorship; after 1940 they ended up with what some called the perfect dictatorship. This book brings together historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists to offer a radical new understanding of the emergence and persistence of the modern Mexican state.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[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.” -- J. M. Rosenthal * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“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.” -- Stephen E. Lewis * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDictablanda\u003c\/i\u003e 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\" -- Amelia M. Kiddle * Labour\/Le Travail *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDictablanda\u003c\/i\u003e’s publication marks a watershed in the study of postrevolutionary Mexico. … The collection’s theoretical pluralism and thematic diversity defies easy characterization.\" -- Ben Fallaw * The Americas *\u003cbr\u003e\"[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.\" -- Louise E. Walker * Hispanic American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" -- Jurgen Buchenau * The Historian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface \/ 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 Cardenas 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 Hernandez Rodriguez        108   5. Tropical Passion in the Desert: Gonzalo N. Santos and Local Elections in Nothern San Luis Potosi, 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 Urzua Flores: Modernizer and Peasant Political Leader in Jalisco \/ Maria Teresa Fernandez 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 Pena        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","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406080123223,"sku":"9780822356318","price":112.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822356318.jpg?v=1730494458","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dictablanda-9780822356318","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}