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"A watershed analysis—the new political history of Latin America begins here."—John Tutino, Georgetown University
"Florencia Mallon's analysis of peasant politics and state formation in Latin America compels us to rethink the relationship between the 'national' and the 'popular.' In particular, she questions the concept of 'community' in a way that scholars of subaltern histories elsewhere will find enormously helpful."—Dipesh Chakrabarty, Director of the Ashworth Centre for Social Theory, University of Melbourne, Australia
List of contents
List of Maps
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Political History from Below: Hegemony,
the State, and Nationalist Discourses
PART 1 INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES, NATIONAL GUARDS,
AND THE LIBERAL REVOLUTION IN THE SIERRA
NORTE DE PUEBLA
2 Contested Citizenship (1 ): Liberals, Conservatives,
and Indigenous National Guards, 1850-1867
3 The Conflictual Construction of Community:
Gender, Ethnicity, and Hegemony
4 Alternative Nationalisms and Hegemonic
Discourses: Peasant Visions of the Nation
PART 2 COMMUNAL HEGEMONY AND NATIONALIST
DISCOURSES IN MEXICO AND PERU
5 Contested Citizenship (2): Regional Political
Cultures, Peasant Visions of the Nation,
and the Liberal Revolution in Morelos
6 From Citizen to Other: National Resistance,
State Formation, and Peasant Visions of the
Nation in Junin
7 Communal Hegemony and Alternative
Nationalisms: Historical Contingencies
and Limiting Cases
PART 3 ALTERNATIVE NATIONAL PROJECTS AND THE
CONSOLIDATION OF THE STATE
8 The Intricacies of Coercion: Popular Political
Cultures, Repression, and the Failure
of Hegemony
9 Whose Bones Are They, Anyway, and
Who Gets to Decide? Local Intellectuals,
Hegemony, and Counterhegemony in
National Politics
10 Popular Nationalism and Statemaking in
Mexico and Peru: The Deconstruction of
Community and Popular Culture
Notes
Index
About the author
Florencia E. Mallon is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin. She is the author of The Defense of Community in Peru's Central Highlands: Peasant Struggle and Capitalist Transition, 1860-1940 (1983) and the coeditor of Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor and the Capitalist World-System in Africa and Latin America (1992).
Summary
This text offers a new statement on the making of national politics. Comparing the popular political cultures and discourses of post-colonial Mexico and Peru, it provides an analysis of their effect on the evolution of these nation states.
