Waking from the Dream
Subtitle: Mexico's Middle Classes after 1968
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: Feb 20, 2013
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780804781510
Description: When the postwar boom began to dissipate in the 1960s, Mexico's middle classes awoke to an economically terrifying world. And following massacres of students at peaceful protests in 1968 and 1971, one-party control of Mexican politics dissipated as well. The ruling Party of the Institutional Revolution struggled to recover its legitimacy. This title tells the story of this profound change from state-led development to neo-liberalism and from a one-party state to electoral democracy.
Notes: Source title: Waking from the Dream: Mexico's Middle Classes after 1968