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: Paperback
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780520084193
Subjects: American history; Anthropology; Revolutions & coups; Social groups & communities; Michoacâan de Ocampo; History - General History; Christianity - Catholicism; Political culture; Mexico; History: World; Christianity - Catholic; Latin America - Mexico; History / General; Cardenas, Lazaro,; Peasantry; Politics and government; Relations with peasantry; 1895-1970; 20th century; Government relations; History; Indians of Mexico
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.