Setting the Virgin on fire
Subtitle: Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán peasants, and the redemption of the Mexican Revolution
By: Marjorie Becker.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Cárdenas, Lázaro, 1895-1970 -- Relations with peasantry; Peasantry -- Mexico -- Michoacán de Ocampo -- History -- 20th century; Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Michoacán de Ocampo -- Government relations; Political culture -- Mexico -- Michoacán de Ocampo -- History -- 20th century; Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1910-1946; Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920 -- Social aspects
Description: "Provides convincing revision of the 'myth of secular redemption' surrounding Lázaro Cárdenas and his program of land distribution to the campesinos. Operating on a 'stripped-down image of land-hungry peasants,' Cárdenas and his supporters underestimated the difficulty of gaining peasant allegiance to the post-revolutionary government and initially failed to understand that they were confronting a cultural as well as an economic problem as they tried to extend revolutionary hegemony"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-184) and index.