附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-184) and index.
Introduction: official history and the myth of secular redemption -- A culture of purity and redemption -- From the margins of purity to the margins of danger -- Call out a posse, gather up their music, teach them to sing: the reinvention of the Indian in postrevolutionary Michoacán -- Revolutionary lessons, I: purity up in smoke -- Revolutionary lessons, II: the compensations of Indianism -- Some lessons of their own -- An end to the innocence -- Conclusion: the redemption of the Mexican Revolution.
摘要:"Provides convincing revision of the 'myth of secular redemption' surrounding Lázaro Cárdenas and his program of land distribution to the campesinos. Operating on a 'stripped-down image of land-hungry peasants,' Cárdenas and his supporters underestimated the difficulty of gaining peasant allegiance to the post-revolutionary government and initially failed to understand that they were confronting a cultural as well as an economic problem as they tried to extend revolutionary hegemony"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
