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Book SynopsisThis text offers a new statement on the making of national politics. Comparing the popular political cultures and discourses of post-colonial Mexico and Peru, it provides an analysis of their effect on the evolution of these nation states.
Table of ContentsList of Maps
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Political History from Below: Hegemony,
the State, and Nationalist Discourses
PART 1 INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES, NATIONAL GUARDS,
AND THE LIBERAL REVOLUTION IN THE SIERRA
NORTE DE PUEBLA
2 Contested Citizenship (1 ): Liberals, Conservatives,
and Indigenous National Guards, 1850-1867
3 The Conflictual Construction of Community:
Gender, Ethnicity, and Hegemony
4 Alternative Nationalisms and Hegemonic
Discourses: Peasant Visions of the Nation
PART 2 COMMUNAL HEGEMONY AND NATIONALIST
DISCOURSES IN MEXICO AND PERU
5 Contested Citizenship (2): Regional Political
Cultures, Peasant Visions of the Nation,
and the Liberal Revolution in Morelos
6 From Citizen to Other: National Resistance,
State Formation, and Peasant Visions of the
Nation in Junin
7 Communal Hegemony and Alternative
Nationalisms: Historical Contingencies
and Limiting Cases
PART 3 ALTERNATIVE NATIONAL PROJECTS AND THE
CONSOLIDATION OF THE STATE
8 The Intricacies of Coercion: Popular Political
Cultures, Repression, and the Failure
of Hegemony
9 Whose Bones Are They, Anyway, and
Who Gets to Decide? Local Intellectuals,
Hegemony, and Counterhegemony in
National Politics
10 Popular Nationalism and Statemaking in
Mexico and Peru: The Deconstruction of
Community and Popular Culture
Notes
Index
