20th century mexican culture
20th century mexican history
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Author_Marjorie Becker
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catholic culture
catholicism
christianity
cultural studies
danger
empathy
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equality
innocence
latin american history
lazaro cardenas
mexican government
mexican history
mexican revolution
mexico
michoacan peasants
modernism
modernity
mythology
national revolution
peasant culture
post revolutionary government
power
president cardenas
purity
redemption
religion
revolution
revolutionary ideas
spirituality
virgin
virgin mary
Product details
- ISBN 9780520084193
- Weight: 318g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jan 1996
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this beautifully written work, Marjorie Becker reconstructs the cultural encounters which led to Mexico's post-revolutionary government. She sets aside the mythology surrounding president Lazaro Cardenas to reveal his dilemma: until he and his followers understood peasant culture, they could not govern. This dilemma is vividly illustrated in Michoacan. There, peasants were passionately engaged in a Catholic culture focusing on the Virgin Mary. The Cardenistas, inspired by revolutionary ideas of equality and modernity, were oblivious to the peasants' spirituality and determined to transform them. A series of dramatic conflicts forced Cardenas to develop a government that embodied some of the peasants' complex culture. Becker brilliantly combines concerns with culture and power and a deep historical empathy to bring to life the men and women of her story. She shows how Mexico's government today owes much of its subtlety to the peasants of Michoacan.
Marjorie Becker is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern California.
