The Mexican Revolution’s Wake: The Making of a Political System, 1920–1929 (Cambridge Latin American Studies #108)
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- Synopsis
- Throughout the 1920s Mexico was rocked by attempted coups, assassinations, and popular revolts. Yet by the mid-1930s, the country boasted one of the most stable and durable political systems in Latin America. In the first book on party formation conducted at the regional level after the Mexican Revolution, Sarah Osten examines processes of political and social change that eventually gave rise to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which dominated Mexico's politics for the rest of the twentieth century. In analyzing the history of socialist parties in the southeastern states of Campeche, Chiapas, Tabasco, and Yucatán, Osten demonstrates that these 'laboratories of revolution' constituted a highly influential testing ground for new political traditions and institutional structures. The Mexican Revolution's Wake shows how the southeastern socialists provided a blueprint for a new kind of party that struck calculated balances between the objectives of elite and popular forces, and between centralized authority and local autonomy. Includes a four-state comparison of socialist parties in Southeast Mexico, which contributes a truly regional perspective to a field dominated by locally-specific histories. Addresses the origins of Mexico's idiosyncratic post-revolutionary political system, and facilitates comparisons with histories of state-formation elsewhere in the world. Highlights the political histories of less-studied states in Mexico, and offers background on relevant figures and events, complicating and enriching previous interpretations of this history with new data.
- Copyright:
- 2018
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781108245081
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781108415989, 9781108415989
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 06/15/18
- Copyrighted By:
- Sarah Osten
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Politics and Government
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.