4 The Cristiada: Elites and Popular Groups in Rebellion against the Revolutionary State

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. 1 What Makes Peasants Counterrevolutionary? The Problem of Partisanship in Mexico's Cristero Rebellion 1
5. 2 Liberals, Indians, and the Catholic Church in Nineteenth-Century Michoacan 24
6. 3 State Formation in Revolutionary Michoacan 48
7. 4 The Cristiada: Elites and Popular Groups in Rebellion against the Revolutionary State 72
8. 5 The Agraristas of the Zacapu Region 111
9. 6 Catholics, Cristeros, and Agraristas in the Purepecha Highlands 134
10. 7 The Cristeros of Northwestern Michoacán 163
11. 8 Popular Groups, Political Identities, and the State in Mexico: The Cristiada in Comparative Perspective 179
12. Notes 197
13. Bibliography 245
14. Index 265