Cárdenas Compromised: The Failure of Reform in Postrevolutionary YucatánDuke University Press, 17 ago 2001 - 236 páginas 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 Cárdenas to experiment by launching an ambitious top-down project to mobilize the rural poor along ethnic and class lines. The regime encouraged rural peasants to form collectives, hacienda workers to unionize, and urban laborers to strike. It also attempted to mobilize young people and women, to challenge Yucatán’s traditional, patriarchal social structure, to reach out to Mayan communities, and to democratize the political process. Although the project ultimately failed, political dialogue over Cárdenas’s efforts continues. Rejecting both revisionist (anti-Cárdenas) and neopopulist (pro-Cárdenas) interpretations, Fallaw overturns the notion that the state allowed no room for the agency of local actors. By focusing on historical connections across class, political, and regional lines, Fallaw transforms ideas on Cardenismo that have long been accepted not only in Yucatán but throughout Mexico. This book will appeal to scholars of Mexican history and of Latin American state formation, as well as to sociologists and political scientists interested in modern Mexico. |
Índice
1 | |
1 Agrarian Cardenismo the Rise of the CGT and the Fall of Governor Alayola 19341935 | 15 |
2 LeftCardenismo and the López Cárdenas Administration 19351936 | 38 |
Gualbertismo the Fall of López Cárdenas and the Rise of the Official Camarilla | 59 |
Cardenismo from Above | 80 |
Cárdenas Urban Labor and the Open Door Election of 1937 | 97 |
The Great Ejido Plan and the New Political Equilibrium in Yucatán | 125 |
Cardenismos Legacy in Yucatán | 158 |
Notes | 169 |
List of Abbreviations | 201 |
205 | |
217 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Cárdenas Compromised: The Failure of Reform in Postrevolutionary Yucatán Ben Fallaw Vista previa restringida - 2001 |
Cárdenas Compromised: The Failure of Reform in Postrevolutionary Yucatán Ben Fallaw Vista de fragmentos - 2001 |
Cárdenas Compromised: The Failure of Reform in Postrevolutionary Yucatán Ben Fallaw Vista de fragmentos - 2001 |
Términos y frases comunes
agey agn dgg agn lc Agrarian Bank agrarian reform Alayola alliance August authorities base caciques called campaign candidates Canto Echeverría Cárdenas’s Cardenismo Cardenista Carrillo Puerto Chalé claimed Communist communities created crusade culture December delsureste demands Diario de Yucatán Diario del sureste economic ejidatarios ejidos election failed February federal federal agrarian first forced governor grants groups Gualbertista Gualberto Carrillo hacendados haciendas hand head henequen zone independent January July June labor land land reform landowners leaders Left López Cárdenas March Mérida Mexican Mexico City mobilizations November o≈cial camarilla October Open opposition organizations Palomo Valencia party peasants peons Pérez Plan political popular President Cárdenas Press problems promised regional represented rural social Socialist strike strong teachers tion took town turn unions University votes women workers young Yucatecan