Title: Setting the Virgin on Fire
First published: 1995
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.
Subjects: Politics and government, Indians of Mexico, Political culture, Government relations, Social aspects, Relations with peasantry, History, Peasantry, Korea, history, Peasants, Cardenas, lazaro, 1895-1970, Mexico, politics and government, Indians of mexico, government relations
Places: Mexico, Michoacán de Ocampo
People: Lázaro Cárdenas (1895-1970)
Time periods: 20th century, Revolution, 1910-1920, 1910-1946
LC classification: F1234.C233 B43 1995