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Myths of Demilitarization in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920-1960
Thomas Rath
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Paperback. Myths of Demilitarization in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920-1960 Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white halftones, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBW; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
At the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1920, Mexico's large, rebellious army dominated national politics. By the 1940s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was led by a civilian president and claimed to have depoliticised the army and achieved the bloodless pacification of the Mexican countryside through land reform, schooling, and indigenismo. However, historian Thomas Rath argues, Mexico's celebrated demilitarisation was more protracted, conflict-ridden, and incomplete than most accounts assume. Civilian governments deployed troops as a police force, often aimed at political suppression, while officers meddled in provincial politics, engaged in corruption, and crafted official history, all against a backdrop ... Read more
At the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1920, Mexico's large, rebellious army dominated national politics. By the 1940s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was led by a civilian president and claimed to have depoliticised the army and achieved the bloodless pacification of the Mexican countryside through land reform, schooling, and indigenismo. However, historian Thomas Rath argues, Mexico's celebrated demilitarisation was more protracted, conflict-ridden, and incomplete than most accounts assume. Civilian governments deployed troops as a police force, often aimed at political suppression, while officers meddled in provincial politics, engaged in corruption, and crafted official history, all against a backdrop ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807839294
SKU
V9780807839294
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About Thomas Rath
Thomas Rath is lecturer in the History of Latin America, University College London, USA.
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