Title: Becoming campesinos : politics, identity, and agrarian struggle in postrevolutionary Michoacán, 1920-1935 /
Authors: Boyer, Christopher R.
Publisher: Stanford University Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Peasants Mexico Michoacán de Ocampo History; Peasants Mexico Political activity History; Agricultural laborers Mexico Michoacán de Ocampo History; Land reform Mexico Michoacán de Ocampo History; Michoacán de Ocampo (Mexico) Politics and government; Mexico Politics and government
Contents: Becoming campesinos : from political category to cultural identity -- Land, community, and memory in postrevolutionary Michoacán -- Francisco Múgica and the making of agrarian struggle, 1920-1922 -- Village revolutionaries -- Refusing the revolution : Catholic nationalism and the Cristero rebellion -- Lázaro Cárdenas and the advent of a campesino politics -- The politics of campesino identity in twentieth-century Mexico -- Appendix: Land reform in Michoacán, 1917-1940.