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1 online resource (302 p.) |
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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Maps and Tables; LIst of Illustrations; Introduction; Background; The Main Characters; The Conceptual Framework; Methodology and Sources; 1 Veracruz and Michoac©Łn on the Threshold of a New Era; Background; Indices of Industrialization and Political Sophistication; Agrarian Structure as an Index of Revolutionary Dynamism; Grassroots Organization and Its Influence on the Development of Agrarianism; Tejeda's Road to Power; C©Łrdenas's Road to Power; Towards a New Era? |
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2 Towards Reform: The Development of Leadership Patterns and a Political InfrastructurePriorities and Modes of Operation; Organizing the Masses; The Veracruz Agrarian League: Organizational and Ideological Bases; The Veracruz League as a Power Base; Why Veracruz Had No United Proletarian Front; The Basis of the Michoac©Łn Labor Confederation; Organization as a Reflection of the Concepts of the State and of the Nature of Social Change; Taking Over the Sphere of Local Government; Rationale and Techniques; Integration of Power in the Michoac©Łn Municipios |
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Integration of Power in the Veracruz MunicipiosThe Takeover of the City of Veracruz; Reaping the Fruits of Success; Politico-Administrative Reclassification of Villages; Establishing Personal Authority in the Local and National Spheres; Political Power and the Test of Recognition; 3 The Shaping of a New Civil Consciousness; Motives for Developing a New Consciousness and a Revolutionary Ethos; The Education System before the Advent of C©Łrdenas and Tejeda; Cardenist Education as a Revolutionary Mission; The Rehabilitation of the Veracruz Education System |
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The Ideological Orientation: Socialist Education in VeracruzTejeda and C©Łrdenas: A Parting of the Ways; The Battle against the Church; 4 The Salvation of Agrarianism: The Ejido Issue; Introduction; Missed Opportunities for Agrarian Reform; Saving the Ejido: The Ideological Dimension; C©Łrdenas and the Ejidal Ethos; Tejeda and the Ejidal State; Saving the Ejido: Organization and Consciousness-Raising; Reinforcing the Administrative Framework; The Battle over Ejidal Petitions; Protecting the Nascent Ejido; Implementing the Reform in the Field |
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Arrangements to Help Potential Ejidatarios Survive the Waiting Period: VeracruzArrangements to Help Potential Ejidatarios Survive the Waiting Period: Michoac©Łn; The Implementation of the Ejidal Reform: Quantity and Quality; Defending the New Ejido; The Cooperative Basis: Veracruz Did More; Easing the Ejidos' Tax Burden: Conflicting Trends; The Salvation of the Ejido: A Pyrrhic Victory?; 5 From Ejidal Agrarianism to Total Agrarianism; The Importance of Private Land; The Return of the Forest Land to the Meseta Tarasca Communities in Michoac©Łn |
| Summary |
Lázaro Cárdenas and Adalberto Tejeda, veterans of the Revolution and prominent governors of Michoacán and Veracruz from 1928 to 1932, strived to make Mexico a modern and just state on the basis of the revolutionary Constitution. Three key obstacles confronted them: the conservative approach of the political Center; the political weakness of their own power base; and the great opposing power of the farmers and their supporting elements, especially the Church and the army. This book discusses the different avenues to reform these leaders took and their short- and long-term implications. Cárdenas sought to strengthen his position through the ruling party (PNR), while reinforcing local agrarian forces and opening channels of direct empathetic communication with the Church and the army. Tejeda attempted to strengthen his position in the federative arena, bypassing the political Center via the National Peasant League (LNC - Liga Nacional Campesina), whose establishment he was deeply involved in, making a sweeping radical reform while attacking uncompromisingly all the traditional elements of Veracruzan society. Both political projects had unprecedented success but totally different implications. The Cardenista power base led its author to the next Presidency, during which he implemented a remarkable agrarian project. Tejeda's power base, however, led to the utter annihilation of his political power structure and many of his agrarian achievements, as well as to his failure in the struggle for presidency. Provided by the publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Preparing the Way for the Creation of Private Smallholdings in Michoac©Łn |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 30, 2015) |
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Cárdenas, Lázaro, 1895-1970 -- Political activity -- Mexico -- Michoacán de Ocampo
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Tejeda, Adalberto, 1883-1960 -- Political activity -- Mexico -- Veracruz-Llave (State)
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Cárdenas, Lázaro, 1895-1970 fast |
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Tejeda, Adalberto, 1883-1960 fast |
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HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico
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Political participation
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Politics and government
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Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1910-1946. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084613
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Mexico
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Mexico -- Michoacán de Ocampo
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Mexico -- Veracruz-Llave (State)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781782842347 |
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1782842349 |
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9781782842323 |
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1782842322 |
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