Description
This deliberately heterodox volume brings together social historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists to offer a radical new understanding of the emergence and persistence of the modern Mexican state. It also proposes bold, multidisciplinary approaches to critical problems in contemporary politics. With its blend of contested elections, authoritarianism, and resistance, Mexico foreshadowed the hybrid regimes that have spread across much of the globe. Dictablanda suggests how they may endure.
Contributors. Roberto Blancarte, Christopher R. Boyer, Guillermo de la Pena, Maria Teresa Fernandez Aceves, Paul Gillingham, Rogelio Hernandez Rodriguez, Alan Knight, Gladys McCormick, Tanalis Padilla, Wil G. Pansters, Andrew Paxman, Jaime Pensado, Pablo Piccato, Thomas Rath, Jeffrey W. Rubin, Benjamin T. Smith, Michael Snodgrass
About the Author
Paul Gillingham is a Lecturer in Latin American History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Cuauhtemoc's Bones: Forging National Identity in Modern Mexico.
Benjamin T. Smith is Associate Professor of Latin American History at the University of Warwick. He is author of Pistoleros and Popular Movements: The Politics of State Formation in Postrevolutionary Oaxaca.
Reviews
"[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 *
"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 *
"Dictablanda 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 *
"Dictablanda'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 *
"[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 *
"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 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780822356370
Author Paul Gillingham
Format Paperback
Page Count 464
Imprint Duke University Press
Publisher Duke University Press
Weight(grams) 621g