Dictablanda by Paul Gillingham

Dictablanda by Paul Gillingham

In 1910 Mexicans rebelled against an imperfect dictatorship; after 1940 they ended up with what some called the perfect dictatorship. This book brings together historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists to offer a radical new understanding of the emergence and persistence of the modern Mexican state.

“[A]n invaluable resource for any nonspecialist seeking a rigorous and in-depth consideration of the topic. . .  A necessary addition to any respectable collection on Latin American history or 20th-century politics. . . . Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” - J. M. Rosenthal (Choice) “This timely edited volume explores how the country that launched the first social revolution of the twentieth century became one of the world’s most unequal and least democratic societies. Its regional and methodological sweep is impressive. Taken together, the eighteen chapters challenge the conventional wisdom in many ways. Graduate students in particular will mine this volume for promising leads; indeed, this book will likely inspire a wave of interdisciplinary research on the period.” - Stephen E. Lewis (Journal of Interdisciplinary History) "Dictablanda is a must read for students of Mexican history and politics, and provides a useful synthesis of the emerging works on this under-researched period" - Amelia M. Kiddle (Labour/Le Travail) "Dictablanda’s publication marks a watershed in the study of postrevolutionary Mexico. … The collection’s theoretical pluralism and thematic diversity defies easy characterization." - Ben Fallaw (The Americas) "[T]his volume brings together important case studies and contributes to a debate about how to conceptualize the era. It is essential reading for scholars of post-revolutionary Mexico." - Louise E. Walker (Hispanic American Historical Review) "Combining two generations of scholarship in the historiography of postrevolutionary Mexico, this collection of essays is a masterpiece. It constitutes the first-ever effort to study in detail the heyday of Mexico’s official revolutionary party from the oil expropriation of 1938 to the government’s massacre of student protesters at Mexico City’s Tlatelolco Square in 1968....it should be required reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century Latin America." - Jurgen Buchenau (The Historian)

Paul Gillingham is a Lecturer in Latin American History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of CuauhtÉmoc’s Bones: Forging National Identity in Modern Mexico.

Benjamin T. Smith is Associate Professor of Latin American History at the University of Warwick. He is author of Pistoleros and Popular Movements: The Politics of State Formation in Postrevolutionary Oaxaca.

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ISBN 13	9780822356318
ISBN 10	0822356317
Title	Dictablanda
Author	Paul Gillingham
Series	American Encounters Global Interactions
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Duke University Press
Year published	2014-04-04
Number of pages	464
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