From Liberal to Revolutionary Oaxaca : : The View from the South, Mexico 1867-1911 / / Francie R. Chassen-López.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Chassen-López, Francie R.,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (624 p.) :; 12 illustrations/5 maps

From Liberal to Revolutionary Oaxaca aims at finally setting Mexican history free of stereotypes about the southern state of Oaxaca, long portrayed as a traditional and backward society resistant to the forces of modernization and marginal to the Revolution. Chassen-López challenges this view of Oaxaca as a negative mirror image of modern Mexico, presenting in its place a much more complex reality. Her analysis of the confrontations between Mexican liberals' modernizing projects and Oaxacan society, especially indigenous communal villages, reveals not only conflicts but also growing linkages and dependencies. She portrays them as engaging with and transforming each other in an ongoing process of contestation, negotiation, and compromise.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of figures, tables, and maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I-infrastructure and economics -- 1 "A Thousand Whistles" -- 2 From Time Immemorial to the Porfirtian Finca: The Land Tenure Question -- 3 The Commercialization of Agriculture -- 4 A Promoter's Paradise: Mining, Industry, and Commerce -- Part II-society: class, ethnicity, and gender -- 5 Society, "Decent" and Otherwise -- 6 Indigenous Usos y Costumbres and State Formation -- 7 The Indigenous Peoples of Oaxaca: Negotiating Modernity -- Part III Political Culture and Revolution -- 8 Liberal Politics: The Dual Legacy -- 9 Porfirian Politics: A Cientifico Governor -- 10 Precursor Politics -- 11 Revolution in the South -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index