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"This is the best country-focused collection of essays available on rural politics and peasant movements in Latin America."--Leon Zamosc, University of California at San Diego
Sommario
Foreword / William Roseberry xi
Preface xvii
Introduction: Reasons to Be Cheerful / Daniel Nugent 1
I. Popular Nationalism and Anti-Imperialism in the Mexican Countryside
The United States and the Mexican Peasantry, circa 1880-1940 / Alan Knight 25
Measuring Influence: The United States and the Mexican Peasantry / John H. Coatsworth 64
Social Unrest, Nationalism, and American Capital in the Mexican Countryside, 1876-1920 / John Mason Hart 72
Villismo: Nationalism and Popular Mobilization in Northern Mexico / Ruben Osorio 89
II. Class, Ethnicity, and Space in Mexican Rural Revolts
Rancheros and Rebellion: The Case of Northwestern Chihuahua, 1905-1909 / Jane-Dale Lloyd 107
Mixtec Political Consciousness: From Passive to Active Resistance / Michael Kearney 134
Space and Revolution in Northeastern Chihuahua / Maria Teresa Koreck 147
III. U.S. Intervention and Popular Ideology
The United States, Feuding Elites, and Rural Revolt in Yucatan, 1836-1915 / Gilbert M. Joseph 173
U.S. Military Intervention, Revolutionary Mobilization, and Popular Ideology in the Chihuahua Sierra, 1916-1917 / Ana Maria Alonso 207
From Alliance to Dependency: The Formation and Deformation of an Alliance between Francisco Villa and the United States / Friedrich Katz 239
IV. Resistance and Persistence
Chiapas and the Rebellion of the Enchanted World / Adolfo Gilly 261
Bibliography 335
Index 365
Contributors 381
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Daniel Nugent (1954–1997) was a professor of anthropology and Latin American studies, a managing editor of the Journal of Historical Sociology, and coeditor of Everyday Forms of State Formation, also published by Duke University Press.
