Reflections on the Ruins: Everyday Forms of State Formation in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Preface xiii
5. State Formation xvii
6. I. THEORETICAL PROLEGOMENA
7. Popular Culture and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico 1
8. Weapons and Arches in the Mexican Revolutionary Landscape 24
9. II. EMPIRICAL STUDIES
10. Reflections on the Ruins: Everyday Forms of State Formation in Nineteenth-Century Mexico 69
11. Force and the Search for Consent: The Role of the Jefaturas Politicas of Coahuila in National State Formation 107
12. Rethinking Mexican Revolutionary Mobilization: Yucatan's Seasons of Upheaval, 1909-1915 135
13. Schools of the Revolution: Enacting and Contesting State Forms in Tlaxcala, 1910-1930 170
14. Multiple Selective Traditions in Agrarian Reform and Agrarian Struggle: Popular Culture and State Formation in the Ejido of Namiquipa, Chihuahua 209
15. Torching La Purfsima, Dancing at the Altar: The Construction of Revolutionary Hegemony in Michoacan, 1934-1940 247
16. The "Comunidad Revolucionaria Institucional": The Subversion of Native Government in Highland Chiapas, 1936-1968 265
17. The Seduction of the Innocents: The First Tumultuous Moments of Mass Literacy in Postrevolutionary Mexico 301
18. The Fate of the Vanguard under a Revolutionary State: Marxism's Contribution to the Construction of the Great Arch 326
19. III. A THEORETICAL REPRISE
20. Hegemony and the Language of Contention 355
21. Everyday Forms of State Formation: Some Dissident Remarks on "Hegemony" 367
22. Bibliography 379
23. Index 413
24. Contributors 429