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Informationen zum Autor Colby Ristow is an associate professor of history at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Klappentext Colby Ristow is an associate professor of history at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. ¿ Zusammenfassung In October 1911 the governor of Oaxaca, Mexico, ordered a detachment of soldiers to take control of the town of Juchitán from a movement defending the principle of popular sovereignty. Colby Ristow provides the first book-length study of what has come to be known as the Chegomista Rebellion, shedding new light on a conflict previously lost in the shadows of the concurrent Zapatista uprising. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: The Chegomista Rebellion and the Limits of Revolutionary Democracy 1. The Barrio de Arriba and the Barrio de Abajo: A Tale of Two Cities in Porfirian Juchitán 2. “The Rebirth of an Old Political Party”: Liberal Politics and the Rise of the Chegomista Movement 3. “They Imagined That the Horse and the Rider Were One”: The Chegomista Rebellion 4. “It Is Not Possible with the Stroke of a Pen to Suppress the Jefaturas”: State Sovereignty and the Peace Process in Juchitán 5. “More Ignorant Than Guilty”: A “Counterinsurgent” Narrative of the Chegomista Rebellion Conclusion: Political Assassination and the Limits of Revolutionary Democracy Notes Bibliography Index