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Cárdenas Compromised: The Failure of Reform in Postrevolutionary Yucatán
Ben Fallaw
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Description for Cárdenas Compromised: The Failure of Reform in Postrevolutionary Yucatán
Paperback. An archive-based study of the failure of President Cardenas's agrarian reform in Mexico's Yucatan region. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 395.
Cárdenas Compromised is a political and institutional history of Mexico’s urban and rural labor in the Yucatán region during the regime of Lázaro Cárdenas from 1934 to 1940. Drawing on archival materials, both official and popular, Fallaw combines narrative, individual case studies, and focused political analysis to reexamine and dispel long-cherished beliefs about the Cardenista era.
For historical, geographical, and ethnic reasons, Yucatán was the center of large-scale land reform after the Mexican Revolution. A long-standing revolutionary tradition, combined with a harsh division between a powerful white minority and a poor, Maya-speaking majority, made the region the perfect site for ... Read more
Cárdenas Compromised is a political and institutional history of Mexico’s urban and rural labor in the Yucatán region during the regime of Lázaro Cárdenas from 1934 to 1940. Drawing on archival materials, both official and popular, Fallaw combines narrative, individual case studies, and focused political analysis to reexamine and dispel long-cherished beliefs about the Cardenista era.
For historical, geographical, and ethnic reasons, Yucatán was the center of large-scale land reform after the Mexican Revolution. A long-standing revolutionary tradition, combined with a harsh division between a powerful white minority and a poor, Maya-speaking majority, made the region the perfect site for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822327677
SKU
V9780822327677
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About Ben Fallaw
Ben Fallaw is Assistant Professor of History and Latin American Studies at Colby College.
Reviews for Cárdenas Compromised: The Failure of Reform in Postrevolutionary Yucatán
“A deeply researched and convincingly argued regional study that illuminates the contradictions and ambiguities of Mexico’s most radical post-revolutionary regime.”—Mary Kay Vaughan, author of Cultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1934–1940 “Fallaw presents a great deal of new information on the history of the key state of Yucatán during the decisive years of the 1930s, when ... Read more