The logic cf compromise in Mexico : how the countryside was key to the emergence of authoritarianism

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The logic cf compromise in Mexico : how the countryside was key to the emergence of authoritarianism

Title remainder

how the countryside was key to the emergence of authoritarianism

Statement of responsibility

Gladys I. McCormick

Creator

• McCormick, Gladys

Author

• McCormick, Gladys

Subject

• History
• Jaramillo, Ruben M, 1900-1962
• Jaramillo, Rubén M, 1900-1962
• Jaramillo, Rubén M, 1900-1962
• Mexico
• Mexico -- Morelos (State)
• Mexico -- Politics and government -- 20th century
• Mexico -- Puebla (State)
• Mexico -- Rural conditions
• Morelos (Mexico : State) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
• Morelos (Mexico : State) -- Rural conditions
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process | Elections
• 1900-1999
• Partido Revolucionario Institucional
• Partido Revolucionario Institucional -- History
• Political corruption
• Political corruption -- Mexico
• Politics and government
• Puebla (Mexico : State) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
• Puebla (Mexico : State) -- Rural conditions
• Rural conditions
• State-sponsored terrorism
• State-sponsored terrorism -- Mexico
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process | General
• HISTORY -- Latin America | Mexico

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

In this political history of twentieth-century Mexico, Gladys McCormick argues that the key to understanding the immense power of the long-ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) is to be found in the countryside. Using newly available sources, including declassified secret police files and oral histories, McCormick looks at large-scale sugar cooperatives in Morelos and Puebla, two major agricultural regions that serve as microcosms of events across the nation. She argues that Mexico's rural peoples, despite shouldering much of the financial burden of modernization policies, formed the PRI regime's most fervent base of support. McCormick demonstrates how the PRI exploited this support, using key parts of the countryside to test and refine instruments of control--including the regulation of protest, manipulation of collective memories of rural communities, and selective application of violence against critics--that it later employed in other areas, both rural and urban. With three peasant leaders, brothers named Ruben, Porfirio, and Antonio Jaramillo, at the heart of her story, McCormick draws a capacious picture of peasant activism, disillusion, and compromise in state formation, revealing the basis for an enduring political culture dominated by the PRI. On a broader level, McCormick demonstrates the connections among modern state building in Latin America, the consolidation of new forms of authoritarian rule, and the deployment of violence on all sides

Cataloging source

P@U

Dewey number

324.972/0842

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

LC call number

JL1298.R4

LC item number

M35 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography