Pistoleros and Popular Movements - The Politics of State Formation in Postrevolutionary Oaxaca (Paperback, New)

The postrevolutionary reconstruction of the Mexican government did not easily or immediately reach all corners of the country. At every level, political intermediaries negotiated, resisted, appropriated, or ignored the dictates of the central government. National policy reverberated through Mexico's local and political networks in countless different ways and resulted in a myriad of regional arrangements. It is this process of diffusion, politicking, and conflict that Benjamin T. Smith examines in "Pistoleros and Popular Movements."
Oaxaca's urban social movements and the tension between federal, state, and local governments illuminate the multivalent contradictions, fragmentations, and crises of the state-building effort at the regional level. A better understanding of these local transformations yields a more realistic overall view of the national project of state building. Smith places Oaxaca within this larger framework of postrevolutionary Mexico by comparing the region to other states and linking local politics to state and national developments. Drawing on an impressive range of regional case studies, this volume is a comprehensive and engaging study of postrevolutionary Oaxaca's role in the formation of modern Mexico.

General

Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Mexican Experience
Release date:	July 2009
First published:	July 2009
Authors:	Benjamin T. Smith
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	596
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8032-2280-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN:	0-8032-2280-7
Barcode:	9780803222809

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