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

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 Oax...

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