{"product_id":"unintended-lessons-of-revolution-9781478013860","title":"Unintended Lessons of Revolution","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTanalís Padilla traces the history of the normales ruralesrural schools in Mexico that trained campesino teachersand outlines how despite being intended to foster a modern, patriotic citizenry, they became sites of radical politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eUnintended Lessons of Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that Mexico's rural normal schools may be the most durable legacy of the 1910 revolution. Rural schoolteachers in postrevolutionary Mexico served communities not only as instructors but also as community organizers, social workers, and secular confessors and pastors. Tanalís Padilla weaves together oral histories with local and national documentary evidence into an empirically rich study of how the rural normales endured as incubators of political radicalism despite their original purpose as instruments to co-opt resistance into the postrevolutionary regime.” -- Jocelyn Olcott, Professor of History, Duke University\u003cbr\u003e“This is a tremendously impressive study of the rural normal school, which became a vibrant locale of social mobility, cultural change, and political mobilization of student-teachers at various stages in Mexican political history. This book transcends the constricted scope of a narrow institutional study to throw new light on a series of larger questions concerning Mexico's legacy of revolution, its failed rural policies, and the explosion of unrest among rural teachers and activists. It is a pleasure to read.” -- Brooke Larson, author of * Trials of Nation Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810–1910 *\u003cbr\u003e\"Padilla draws on a rich array of archival sources and oral histories to tell this story, constructing a narrative that blends urban and rural events and perspectives and draws on episodes from various states. . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty.\" -- J. M. Rosenthal * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUnintended Lessons of Revolution \u003c\/i\u003eis a wonderful contribution to the rich historiography of agrarian history and student radicalism in Mexico.\" -- Kevan Antonio Aguilar * Journal of Social History *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUnintended Lessons of Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e will be of particular interest to scholars of education, and especially its intersection with organized labor, statecraft, institutional dynamics, political consciousness, and revolutionary ideals. This book will also be useful for its narration of twentieth-century Mexican history through the lens of rural education.\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- Finn West * Exertions *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Unintended Lessons of Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e does much more than contextualize Ayotzinapa. It shows the profound power that the disenfranchised have, even from a position of dispossession, in occupying the imaginary of the state.\" -- Elena Jackson Albarran * HAHR *\u003cbr\u003e\"Padilla excels at highlighting on-the-ground voices and experiences while providing the reader at the same time with a detailed description of policy shifts at the national level. In addition, the book is graced with a series of images drawn from archival sources and teacher-produced public art. . . . [T]he beauty of this book, and history more broadly, is in illustrating how the most humble among us become historical protagonists in unexpected ways.\" -- A.S. Dillingham * The Americas *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations  xv\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Ayotzinapa and the Legacy of Revolution  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Normales, Education, and National Projects  23\u003cbr\u003e 2. A New Kind of School, a New Kind of Teacher  43\u003cbr\u003e 3. \"And That's When the Main Blow Came\"  68\u003cbr\u003e 4. Education at a Crossroads  99\u003cbr\u003e 5. \"The Infinite Injustice Committed against Our Class Brothers  133\u003cbr\u003e 6. Learning in the Barricades  165\u003cbr\u003e 7. \"A Crisis of Authority\"  189\u003cbr\u003e 8. \"That's How We'd Meet . . . Clandestinely with the Lights Off\"  212\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Education, Neoliberalism and Violence  241\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Sample Rural Normal Class Schedules  255\u003cbr\u003e Notes  269\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  323\u003cbr\u003e Index  343","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408994410839,"sku":"9781478013860","price":75.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478013860.jpg?v=1730505011","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/unintended-lessons-of-revolution-9781478013860","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}