Cycles of Conflict, Centuries of Change

Crisis, Reform, and Revolution in Mexico

Autor: Servín, Elisa; Reina, Leticia; Tutino, John
Editor: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822339854
eISBN Pdf: 9780822389934
Lloc de publicació: Durham , United States
Any de publicació digital: 2007
Mes: Juliol
Pàgines: 424
DDC: 972/.04
Idioma: Anglés

Descripció

This important collection explores how Mexico’s tumultuous past informs its uncertain present and future. Cycles of crisis and reform, of conflict and change, have marked Mexico’s modern history. The final decades of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries each brought efforts to integrate Mexico into globalizing economies, pressures on the country’s diverse peoples, and attempts at reform. The crises of the late eighteenth century and the late nineteenth led to revolutionary mobilizations and violent regime changes. The wars for independence that began in 1810 triggered conflicts that endured for decades; the national revolution that began in 1910 shaped Mexico for most of the twentieth century. In 2000, the PRI, which had ruled for more than seventy years, was defeated in an election some hailed as “revolution by ballot.” Mexico now struggles with the legacies of a late-twentieth-century crisis defined by accelerating globalization and the breakdown of an authoritarian regime that was increasingly unresponsive to historic mandates and popular demands.

Leading Mexicanists—historians and social scientists from Mexico, the United States, and Europe—examine the three fin-de-siècle eras of crisis. They focus on the role of the country’s communities in advocating change from the eighteenth century to the present. They compare Mexico’s revolutions of 1810 and 1910 and consider whether there might be a twenty-first-century recurrence or whether a globalizing, urbanizing, and democratizing world has so changed Mexico that revolution is improbable. Reflecting on the political changes and social challenges of the late twentieth century, the contributors ask if a democratic transition is possible and, if so, whether it is sufficient to address twenty-first-century demands for participation and justice.

Contributors. Antonio Annino, Guillermo de la Peña, François-Xavier Guerra, Friedrich Katz, Alan Knight, Lorenzo Meyer, Leticia Reina, Enrique Semo, Elisa Servín, John Tutino, Eric Van Young

Contents
John Tutino - Preface: Debating History to Face the Present and Imagine the Future
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations of Mexican Political Organizations
Leticia Reina, Elisa Servín, and John Tutino - Introduction: Crises, Reforms, and Revolutions in Mexico, Past and Present
Part I. Communities
- Eric van Young - Of Tempests and Teapots: Imperial Crisis and Local Conflict in Mexico at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
- Antonio Annino - The Two-Faced Janus: The Pueblos and the Origins of Mexican Liberalism
- Leticia Reina - Local Elections and Regime Crises: The Political Culture of Indigenous Peoples
Part II. Revolutions
- François-Xavier Guerra - Mexico from Independence to Revolution: The Mutations of Liberalism
- Alan Knight - Mexico’s Three Fin de Siècle Crises
- Friedrich Katz - International Wars, Mexico, and U.S. Hegemony
- John Tutino - The Revolutionary Capacity of Rural Communities: Ecological Autonomy and Its Demise
Part III. Contemporary Crisis
- Lorenzo Meyer - The Second Coming of Mexican Liberalism: A Comparative Perspective
- Guillermo de la Peña - Civil Society and Popular Resistance: Mexico at the End of the Twentieth Century
- Enrique Semo - The Left in the Neoliberal Era
- Elisa Servín - Another Turn of the Screw: Toward a New Political Order
Contributors
Index