From Liberal to Revolutionary Oaxaca

The View from the South, Mexico 1867-1911

von Francie R. Chassen-Lopez

624 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Amerikanische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9780271025124
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.01.2005
• Größe: 235 x 162 mm
• Verlag: Pennsylvania State University Press