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

The logic cf 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 [North Carolina] : University of North Carolina Press, [2016] [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2016.
Description:	1 online resource (1 PDF (xiv, 284 pages)) : map
Language:	English
Subject:	Jaramillo, Rubén M., -- 1900-1962. Jaramillo, Rubén M., -- 1900-1962. Partido Revolucionario Institucional -- History. Partido Revolucionario Institucional. State-sponsored terrorism -- Mexico. Political corruption -- Mexico. Political corruption. Politics and government. Rural conditions. State-sponsored terrorism. Puebla (Mexico : State) -- Rural conditions. Morelos (Mexico : State) -- Rural conditions. Mexico -- Rural conditions. Puebla (Mexico : State) -- Politics and government -- 20th century. Morelos (Mexico : State) -- Politics and government -- 20th century. Mexico -- Politics and government -- 20th century. Mexico. Mexico -- Morelos (State) Mexico -- Puebla (State) History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11405818

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ISBN:	9781469627762 1469627760 9781469627755 1469627752 9781469627748 1469627744
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-272) and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: 9781469627748

Table of Contents:

Introduction
The promise of Cardenismo in rural Morelos
The limits of Cardenismo : the emergence of Ruben Jaramillo
The logic of compromise : the forgotten tale of Antonio Jaramillo
Undoing of rural autonomy : the rise and fall of Porfirio Jaramillo
A laboratory for state-sponsored violence, 1952-1958
Taking history forward : the institutionalization of authoritarianism, 1958-1962
Searching for new heroes, 1962 and beyond
Conclusion.