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

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

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Author / Creator:McCormick, Gladys, author.
Imprint:Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Description:xiv, 284 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Jaramillo, Rubén M., -- 1900-1962.
Jaramillo, Rubén M., -- 1900-1962.
Partido Revolucionario Institucional -- History.
Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
Political corruption -- Mexico.
State-sponsored terrorism -- Mexico.
Political corruption.
Politics and government.
Rural conditions.
State-sponsored terrorism.
Mexico -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Morelos (Mexico : State) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Puebla (Mexico : State) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Mexico -- Rural conditions.
Morelos (Mexico : State) -- Rural conditions.
Puebla (Mexico : State) -- Rural conditions.
Mexico.
Mexico -- Morelos (State)
Mexico -- Puebla (State)
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10559183
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ISBN:9781469627748
1469627744
9781469627755
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. While historians have commonly focused on populists and their relationship with urban workers, McCormick looks instead at large-scale sugar cooperatives in Morelos and Puebla, two major agricultural regions that serve as microcosms of events across the nation, and 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"--

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