Rural Revolt in Mexico is a historical investigation of how subaltern political activity engages imperialism, capitalism, and the United States. In this volume, Daniel Nugent has gathered a group of leading scholars whose work examines the relationship of revolts by peasants and Indians in Mexico to the past century of U.S. intervention—from the rural rebellions of the 1840s through the 1910 revolution to the 1994 uprising in Chiapas.
Through their studies of social movements and popular mobilization in the Mexican countryside, the contributors argue for understanding rural revolts in terms of the specific historical contexts of particular regions and peoples, as well as the broader context of unequal cultural, political, and economic relations between Mexico and the United States. Exploring the connections between external and internal factors in social movements, these essays reveal the wide range of organized efforts through which peasants and Indians have struggled to shape their own destiny while confronted by the influence of U.S. capital and military might. Originally published as a limited edition in 1988 by the Center for U. S.–Mexican Studies, this volume presents a pioneering effort by Latin Americanist scholars to sympathetically embrace and enrich work begun in Subaltern Studies between 1982 and 1987 by projecting it onto a different region of historical experience. This revised and expanded edition includes a new introduction by Daniel Nugent and an extensive essay by Adolfo Gilly on the recent Chiapas uprising.
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction: Reasons to Be Cheerful
- I Popular Nationalism and Anti-Imperialism in the Mexican Countryside
- The United States and the Mexican Peasantry, circa 1880–1940
- Measuring Influence: The United States and the Mexican Peasantry
- Social Unrest, Nationalism, and American Capital in the Mexican Countryside, 1876–1920
- Villismo: Nationalism and Popular Mobilization in Northern Mexico
- II Class, Ethnicity, and Space in Mexican Rural Revolts
- Rancheros and Rebellion: The Case of Northwestern Chihuahua, 1905–1909
- Mixtec Political Consciousness: From Passive to Active Resistance
- Space and Revolution in Northeastern Chihuahua
- III U.S. Intervention and Popular Ideology
- The United States, Feuding Elites, and Rural Revolt in Yucatán, 1836–1915
- U.S. Military Intervention, Revolutionary Mobilization, and Popular Ideology in the Chihuahuan Sierra, 1916–1917
- From Alliance to Dependency: The Formation and Deformation of an Alliance between Francisco Villa and the United States
- IV Resistance and Persistence
- Chiapas and the Rebellion of the Enchanted World
- Bibliography
- Index
- Contributors
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