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Becoming Campesinos: Politics, Identity, and Agrarian Struggle in Postrevolutionary Michoacan, 1920-1935
Christopher R. Boyer
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Paperback. This work argues that the formation of the Campesino as both a political category and a cultural identity in Mexico was one of the most enduring legacies of the great revolutionary upheavals that began in 1910. It provides information through oral histories, archival documents, and newspapers. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLW; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
Becoming Campesinos argues that the formation of the campesino as both a political category and a cultural identity in Mexico was one of the most enduring legacies of the great revolutionary upheavals that began in 1910. Challenging the assumption that rural peoples "naturally" share a sense of cultural solidarity and political consciousness because of their subordinate social status, the author maintains that the particular understanding of popular-class unity conveyed by the term campesino originated in the interaction of post-revolutionary ideologies and agrarian militancy during the 1920s and 1930s.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804743563
SKU
V9780804743563
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About Christopher R. Boyer
Christopher R. Boyer is Assistant Professor of History and Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Reviews for Becoming Campesinos: Politics, Identity, and Agrarian Struggle in Postrevolutionary Michoacan, 1920-1935
"...a well-written and compelling study..."
American Historical Review "...a wonderful and compelling account of the politics of agrarismo in Michoacan."
The Americas "This is a wonderful leading-edge aproach to one of the fundamental issues of modern Mexican history, and it is profoundly revisionist."
Histoire sociale
American Historical Review "...a wonderful and compelling account of the politics of agrarismo in Michoacan."
The Americas "This is a wonderful leading-edge aproach to one of the fundamental issues of modern Mexican history, and it is profoundly revisionist."
Histoire sociale