Description
Book SynopsisThis is a study of the important but little-understood role of peasants in the formation of the Mexican national state-from the end of the colonial era to the beginning of La Reforma, a moment in which liberalism became dominant in Mexican political culture.
Trade Review"This is an outstanding book. I know of no other work on the first half of the nineteenth century for Mexico (or elsewhere in Latin America, for that matter) that so consistently addresses the complexities and multiple facets of postcolonial political conflict. The author takes rural people seriously, and shows convincingly how they affected and were affected by state formation and attempts to build national policies."—Florencia E. Mallon, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Peasants, Politics, and the Formation of Mexico's National State] tell[s] us a great deal about the so-called Mexican Dark Ages and show[s] that the decades of apparent chaos and conflict were based on popular participation in state builing."—
Mexican StudiesTable of ContentsAbbreviations Introduction 1. Society and politics in colonial Guerrero 2. The War of Independence in Guerrero, 1808-1821 3. State formation in Republican Guerrero 1808-1840 4. National politics and local social movements in Guerrero, 1820-1840 5. Guerrero in the 1840s: peasant rebellions and elite politics 6. The revolution of Ayutla and La Reforma Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
