Setting the Virgin on Fire
Subtitle: Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán Peasants, and the Redemption of the Mexican Revolution
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 4, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780520084186
Subjects: American history; Anthropology; Revolutions & coups; Social groups & communities; Peasantry; Indians of Mexico; Mexico - History; History - General History; MichoacÃ¢an de Ocampo; History: World; Mexico; Latin America - Mexico; Christianity - Catholicism; Cardenas, Lazaro; History / General; Relations with peasantry; Government relations; Political culture; 20th century; History; Michoacâan de Ocampo
First sentence: In the northwestern corner of prerevolutionary Michoacan, social abandon at times took on an almost biblical cast as women trailed after reapers, gleaning spilled and forgotten stalks of wheat.