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This unique book traces Mexico's eventful years from 1910 to 1952 through the experiences of its state governors. During this seminal period, revolutionaries destroyed the old regime, created a new national government, built an official political party, and then discarded in practice the essence of their revolution. In this tumultuous time, governors—some of whom later became president—served as the most significant intermediaries between the national government and the people it ruled.
Leading scholars study governors from ten different states to demonstrate the diversity of the governors' experiences implementing individual revolutionary programs over time, as well as the waxing and waning of strong governorship as an institution that ultimately disappeared in the powerful national regime created in the 1940s and 1950s. Until that time, the contributors convincingly argue, the governors provided the revolution with invaluable versatility by dealing with pressing issues of land, labor, housing, and health at the local and regional levels. The flexibility of state governors also offered test cases for the implementation of national revolutionary laws and campaigns. The only book that considers the state governors in comparative perspective, this invaluable study offers a fresh view of regionalism and the Revolution.
Contributions by: William H. Beezley, Jürgen Buchenau, Francie R. Chassen-López, Michael A. Ervin, María Teresa Fernández Aceves, Paul Gillingham, Kristin A. Harper, Timothy Henderson, David LaFrance, Stephen E. Lewis, Stephanie J. Smith, and Andrew Grant Wood.
This unique book traces Mexico's eventful years from 1910 to 1952 through the experiences of its state governors. During this seminal period, revolutionaries destroyed the old regime, created a new national government, built an official political party, and then discarded in practice the essence of their revolution. In this tumultuous time, governors—some of whom later became president—served as the most significant intermediaries between the national government and the people it ruled.
Leading scholars study governors from ten different states to demonstrate the diversity of the governors' experiences implementing individual revolutionary programs over time, as well as the waxing and waning of strong governorship as an institution that ultimately disappeared in the powerful national regime created in the 1940s and 1950s. Until that time, the contributors convincingly argue, the governors provided the revolution with invaluable versatility by dealing with pressing issues of land, labor, housing, and health at the local and regional levels. The flexibility of state governors also offered test cases for the implementation of national revolutionary laws and campaigns. The only book that considers the state governors in comparative perspective, this invaluable study offers a fresh view of regionalism and the Revolution.
Contributions by: William H. Beezley, Jürgen Buchenau, Francie R. Chassen-López, Michael A. Ervin, María Teresa Fernández Aceves, Paul Gillingham, Kristin A. Harper, Timothy Henderson, David LaFrance, Stephen E. Lewis, Stephanie J. Smith, and Andrew Grant Wood.
Chapter 1: The Role of State Governors in the Mexican
Revolution
Chapter 2: Benito Juárez Maza of Oaxaca: A Revolutionary
Governor?
Chapter 3: Salvador Alvarado of Yucatán: Revolutionary Reforms,
Revolutionary Women
Chapter 4: Plutarco Elías Calles of Sonora: A Mexican Jacobin
Chapter 5: Adalberto Tejeda of Veracruz: Radicalism and
Reaction
Chapter 6: José Guadalupe Zuno Hernández and the Revolutionary
Process in Jalisco
Chapter 7: Tomás Garrido Canabal of Tabasco: Road Building and
Revolutionary Reform
Chapter 8: Marte R. Gómez of Tamaulipas: Governing Agrarian
Revolution
Chapter 9: Efraín Gutiérrez of Chiapas: The Revolutionary
Bureaucrat
Chapter 10: Maximino Avila Camacho of Puebla
Chapter 11: Baltasar Leyva Mancilla of Guerrero: Learning Hegemony
Jürgen Buchenau is professor of history and director of Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. William H. Beezley is professor of history at the University of Arizona.
With its well-conceived chronological coverage, it would be useful
in undergraduate courses. Specialists in modern Mexican history
should take note as well.
*The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History*
This is a concise, valuable anthology. . . . A lively and useful
introduction.
*The Historian*
Overall, the book offers sufficient new scholarship and new
approaches to post-revolutionary politics to make it a welcome
addition to most professional Mexicanists’ shelves. The brevity and
clarity of most chapters make it useful for undergraduate classes
as well.
*Hispanic American Historical Review*
Buchenau and Beezley have assembled the ideal mix of veteran and
emerging scholars to reassess the pivotal role that state governors
and local powerholders played during the Mexican revolution and the
regime that consolidated it. Drawing upon national and regional
archives and informed by recent advances in social history, gender
analysis, and studies in state formation, these succinct essays
provide a more nuanced and textured account of Mexico's transition
from the caudillo and cacique politics of the 1910s and 1920s to
the more centralized, corporatist state that began to emerge in the
1930s. This collection deserves a place in both the classroom and
professional libraries.
*Gilbert M. Joseph, Yale University*
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