| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 244 pages) |
| Contents |
Antimilitarism and revolution in Mexico -- Cardenismo, revolutionary citizenship, and the redefinition of Mexican militarism, 1934-1940 -- Heaven gave you a soldier for every son : conscription and resistance in Mexico in the 1940s -- Civilianism and its discontents : officers, politics, and the PRI -- Military policing and society in Mexico, 1940-1960 -- The army, veterans, and the historical memory of the revolution |
| Summary |
At the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1920, Mexico's large, rebellious army dominated national politics. By the 1940s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was led by a civilian president, and claimed to have depoliticised the army and achieved the bloodless pacification of the Mexican countryside through land reform, schooling, and indigenismo. However, this book argues, Mexico's celebrated demilitarisation was more protracted, conflict-ridden, and incomplete than most accounts assume |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mexico. Ejército -- History -- 20th century
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Mexico. Ejército fast |
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Civil-military relations -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century
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Civil supremacy over the military -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
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Armed Forces -- Political activity
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Civil-military relations
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Civil supremacy over the military
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Politics and government
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Mexico -- Armed Forces -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century
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Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1910-1946. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084613
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Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1946-1970. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084614
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| Subject |
Mexico
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1469608359 |
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9781469608358 |
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9781469608365 |
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1469608367 |
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