Forced marches : soldiers and military caciques in modern Mexico Redrafting history : the challenges of scholarship on the Mexican military experience Terry Rugeley and Ben Fallaw An unsatisfactory picture of civil commotion : unpopular militias and tepid nationalism in the Mexican southeast Terry Rugeley The mobile national guard of Guanajuato 1855 1858 : military hybridization and statecraft in reforma Mexico Daniel S. Haworth Behaving badly in Mexico City : discipline and identity in the presidential guards 1900 1911 Stephen Neufeld Heliodoro Charis Castro and the soldiers of Juchitán : indigenous militarism local rule and the Mexican state Benjamin T. Smith Eulogio Ortíz : the army and the antipolitics of postrevolutionary state formation 1920 1935 Ben Fallaw Revolutionary citizenship against institutional inertia : Cardenismo and the Mexican Army 1934 1940 Thomas Rath Military caciquismo in the Priísta state : general Manges command in Veracruz Paul Gillingham Conclusion : reflections on state theory through the lens of the Mexican military David Nugent