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After the fall of the Porfirio Díaz regime, pueblo representatives sent hundreds of petitions to Pres. Francisco I. Madero, demanding that the executive branch of government assume the judiciary's control over their unresolved lawsuits against landowners, local bosses, and other villages. The Madero administration tried to use existing laws to settle land conflicts but always stopped short of invading judicial authority. In contrast, the two main agrarian reform programs undertaken in revolutionary Mexico--those implemented by Emiliano Zapata and Venustiano Carranza--subordinated the judiciary to the executive branch and thereby reshaped the postrevolutionary state with the support of villa...
En estas páginas se describen las condiciones socioeconómicas de la región y las rebeliones indígenas durante el porfiriato como antecedentes del levantamiento armado, se habla, desde la óptica del zapatismo, sobre el desarrollo político y militar de la Revolución y se analizan diversos aspectos del discurso y la práctica revolucionarios en esa zona: la cuestión agraria, la organización política y administrativa, los conflictos internos, el financiamiento y las diferencias entre las comunidades.
Coloquio Internacional sobre La firma del Plan de Ayala celebrado del 28 al 30 de noviembre de 2011
Con el propósito de incentivar los estudios sobre el estado de Guerrero, a partir del 2004 se celebraron de manera bianual mesas redondas guerrerenses, todas con resultados espléndidos. Este primer volumen ofrece 42 de los trabajos que se presentaron en la primera reunión, las áreas que se abordaron fueron arqueología, lingüística, antropología física, antropología social, historia y etnohistoria.
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Coyame is the wide-ranging account of a small town in Mexico. The author provides readers with a panoramic view of history from the Mayans to the Villa revolutionaries and beyond. The history of the region is brought into stark detail with the inclusion of the tales, legends, and family histories of Coyame’s colorful residents. Morales presents the information with great care and passion; both historians and casual readers will benefit from the candor and whimsy that mark this unique contribution.
Compilation of papers on little-studied region of Mexico, incorporating ethno-history, physical anthropology, linguistics, ethnography, economics, demography and history. Based on original sources and techniques of each discipline, authors contribute new information on northern Guerrero, demonstrating that political and ecclesiastical organization of territory does not necessarily reflect its economic or cultural features, which comprise distinct, singular and complex material and cultural unit.