Dictablanda : politics, work, and culture in Mexico, 1938-1968 /

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Imprint:Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Description:1 online resource ( xviii, 444 pages)
Language:English
Series:American encounters/global interactions
American encounters/global interactions.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12781414
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Other authors / contributors:Gillingham, Paul, 1973- editor.
Smith, Benjamin T., editor.
ISBN:9780822376835
0822376830
9780822356318
0822356317
9780822356370
0822356376
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Other form:Print version: Dictablanda. Durham : Duke University Press, 2014 9780822356318
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the paradoxes of revolution / by Paul Gillingham and Benjamin T. Smith
  • The end of the Mexican Revolution? From Cárdenas to Avila Camacho, 1937-1941 / by Alan Knight
  • Intransigence, anticommunism, and reconciliation : church/state relations in transition / by Roberto Blancarte
  • Camouflaging the state : the army and the limits of hegemony in PRIísta Mexico, 1940-1960 / by Thomas Rath
  • Strongmen and state weakness / by Rogelio Hernández Rodríguez
  • Tropical passion in the desert : Gonzalo N. Santos and local elections in Northern San Luis Potosí, 1943-1958 / by Wil G. Pansters
  • "We don't have arms, but we do have balls" : fraud, violence, and popular agency in elections / by Paul Gillingham
  • The Golden Age of charrismo : workers, braceros, and the political machinery of postrevolutionary Mexico / by Michael Snodgrass
  • The forgotten Jaramillo : building a social base of support for authoritarianism in rural Mexico / by Gladys McCormick
  • Community, crony capitalism, and fortress conservation in Mexican forests / by Christopher R. Boyer
  • Advocate or cacica? Guadalupe Urzúa Flores : modernizer and peasant political leader in Jalisco / by María Teresa Fernández Aceves
  • Building a state on the cheap : taxation, social movements, and politics / by Benjamin T. Smith
  • The end of revolutionary anthropology? : notes on indigenismo / by Guillermo de la Peña
  • Cooling to cinema and warming to television : state mass media policy, 1940-1964 / by Andrew Paxman
  • Pistoleros, Ley Fuga, and uncertainty in public debates about murder in twentieth-century Mexico / by Pablo Piccato
  • Rural education, political radicalism, and normalista identity in Mexico after 1940 / by Tanalís Padilla
  • The rise of a "national student problem" in 1956 / by Jaime Pensado
  • Final comments: Contextualizing the regime? ": what 1938-1968 tells us about Mexico, power, and Latin America's twentieth century / by Jeffrey W. Rubin.