Rural Revolt in Mexico

by Nugent, Daniel; Joseph, Gilbert M.; Rosenberg, Emily S.; Roseberry, William C. (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780822321132
• ISBN10: 0822321130
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-05-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

Rural Revolt in Mexicois a historical investigation of how subaltern political activity engages imperialism, capitalism, and the United States. In this volume, Daniel Nugent has gathered a group of leading scholars whose work examines the relationship of revolts by peasants and Indians in Mexico to the past century of U.S. intervention-from the rural rebellions of the 1840s through the 1910 revolution to the 1994 uprising in Chiapas. Through their studies of social movements and popular mobilization in the Mexican countryside, the contributors argue for understanding rural revolts in terms of the specific historical contexts of particular regions and peoples, as well as the broader context of unequal cultural, political, and economic relations between Mexico and the United States. Exploring the connections between external and internal factors in social movements, these essays reveal the wide range of organized efforts through which peasants and Indians have struggled to shape their own destiny while confronted by the influence of U.S. capital and military might. Originally published as a limited edition in 1988 by the Center for U. S.Mexican Studies, this volume presents a pioneering effort by Latin Americanist scholars to sympathetically embrace and enrich work begun inSubaltern Studiesbetween 1982 and 1987 by projecting it onto a different region of historical experience. This revised and expanded edition includes a new introduction by Daniel Nugent and an extensive essay by Adolfo Gilly on the recent Chiapas uprising.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
William Roseberry
Preface	xvii
Introduction: Reasons to Be Cheerful	1	(24)
Daniel Nugent
I Popular Nationalism and Anti-Imperialism in the Mexican Countryside
The United States and the Mexican Peasantry, circa 1880-1940	25	(39)
Alan Knight
Measuring Influence: The United States and the Mexican Peasantry	64	(8)
John H. Coatsworth
Social Unrest, Nationalism, and American Capital in the Mexican Countryside, 1876-1920	72	(17)
John Mason Hart
Villismo: Nationalism and Popular Mobilization in Norther Mexico	89	(18)
Ruben Osorio
II Class, Ethnicity, and Space in Mexican Rural Revolts
Rancheros and Rebellion: The Case of Northwestern Chihuahua, 1905-1909	107	(27)
Jane-Dale Lloyd
Mixtec Political Consciousness: From Passive to Active Resistance	134	(13)
Michael Kearney
Space and Revolution in Northeastern Chihuahua	147	(26)
Maria Teresa Koreck
III U.S. Intervention and Popular Ideology
The United States, Feuding Elites, and Rural Revolt in Yucatan, 1836-1915	173	(34)
Gilbert M. Joseph
U.S. Military Intervention, Revolutionary Mobilization, and Popular Ideology in the Chihuahuan Sierra, 1916-1917	207	(32)
Ana Maria Alonso
From Alliance to Dependency: The Formation and Deformation of an Alliance between Francisco Villa and the United States	239	(22)
Friedrich Katz
IV Resistance and Persistence
Chiapas and the Rebellion of the Enchanted World	261	(74)
Adolfo Gilly
Bibliography	335	(30)
Index	365	(16)
Contributors	381