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Setting the Virgin on Fire

Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacan Peasants and the Redemption of the Mexican Revolution

  • Paperback
  • 194 pages
  • Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
  • 15.5 x 23.2 x 1.8 cm

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This work reconstructs the cultural encounters which led to Mexico's post-revolutionary government. It sets aside the mythology surrounding president Lazaro Cardenas to reveal his dilemma: until he and his followers understood peasant culture, they could not govern. This dilemma is vividly illustrated in Michoacan. There, peasants were passionately engaged in a Catholic culture focusing on the Virgin Mary. The Cardenistas, inspired by revolutionary ideas of equality and modernity, were oblivious to peasants' spirituality and determined to transform them. A series of dramatic conflicts forced Cardenas to develop a government that embodied some of the peasants' complex culture.
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  • Author

    Marjorie Becker

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

  • Published

    January 1996

  • Weight

    327g

  • Page Count

    194

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 23.2 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780520084193

  • ISBN-10

    0520084195

  • Eden Code

    1151332

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