Title: The first agraristas : an oral history of a Mexican agrarian reform movement /
Authors: Craig, Ann L.
Publisher: University of California Press,
Year: 1983
Subjects: Ejidos Mexico Lagos de Moreno.; Land reform Mexico Lagos de Moreno.
Contents: 1. Introduction -- lagos de Moreno -- Studies of agrarian reform and peasant movements in Mexico -- Agrarian activism in lagos -- Site selection and methodology -- Organization of this book -- 2. The burden of tradition -- Los Altos de Jalisco: "Region of poor soil and industrious people" -- The early settlement of Lagos de Moreno -- Lagos in the nineteenth century -- The aristocracy's golden years: Lagos at the turn of the century -- Enduring the revolution -- 3. Agrarian reform: the first steps -- Lagos between revollution and reform -- Mexico in the wake of the revolution -- Lagos de Moreno in the 1920s -- 4. Agrarian reform: Fruition -- The agraristas organize -- The 1933-34 presidential campaign -- The land is granted -- Jose Romero Gómez: "The eternal rebel" -- Child to man: Learning a trade and independence -- Ideological growth -- Leading local reform -- Lean years in exile -- Seeking local office -- Retirement from politics: The twisted revolution -- 6. "La vieja guardia": Foot-soldiers of agrarian reform -- The first agraristas: Shared attributes -- The first agraristas: Individual profiles -- Reflections of the old guard -- 7. Conclusion: The legacy of agrarismo -- The genesis of reform -- The ideology of reform -- Inhibiting the facilitating factors -- Persisting problems