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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...
Music and Coexistence:A Journey across the World in Search of Musicians Making a Difference is both study and travelogue, as author Osseily Hanna explores the courageous work of musicians who compose and perform with their ostensible enemies or in extraordinary social situations. He documents the political and economic constraints faced by musicians, from the wall that encloses a refugee camp in Jerusalem, to the tensions among KFOR and Carabinieri peacekeepers who keep Serbs and Kosovar Albanians apart, to the cultural and linguistic suppression that afflicts minority communities in Turkey. A multilingual musician, Hanna examines the lives of the individuals and groups at the forefront of t...
The 1946 Mexican presidential election signaled the ascent of a new generation of cosmopolitan civilian government officials, led by the magnetic lawyer Miguel Alemán. Supporters hailed them as modernizing visionaries whose policies laid the foundation for unprecedented economic growth, while critics decried the administration’s toleration of rampant corruption, hostility to organized labor, and indifference to the rural poor. Setting aside these extremes of opinion in favor of a more balanced analysis, Sons of the Mexican Revolution traces the socialization of this ruling generation’s members, from their earliest education through their rise to national prominence. Using a wide array of new archival sources, the author demonstrates that the transformative political decisions made by these men represented both their collective values as a generation and their effort to adapt those values to the realities of the Cold War.
Historians have paid scant attention to the five years that span from the conclusion early in 1848 of Mexico’s disastrous conflict with the United States to the final return to power in April 1853 of General Antonio López de Santa Anna. This volume presents a more thorough understanding of this pivotal time, and the issues and experiences that then affected Mexicans. It sheds light on how elite politics, church-state relations, institutional affairs, and peasant revolts played a crucial role in Mexico’s long-term historical development, and also explores topics like marriage and everyday life, and the public trials and executions staged in the aftermath of the war with the U.S.
Between 1836 and 1861, Mexico’s difficulties as a sovereign state became fully exposed. Its example provides a case study for all similarly emerging independent states that have broken away from long-standing imperial systems. The leaders of the Republic in Mexico envisaged the construction of a nation, in a process that often conflicted with ethnic, religious, and local loyalties. The question of popular participation always remained outstanding, and this book examines regional and local movements as the other side of the coin to capital city issues and aspirations. Formerly an outstanding Spanish colony on the North American sub-continent, financial difficulties, economic recession, and political divisions made the new Republic vulnerable to spoliation. This began with the loss of Texas in 1836, the acquisition of the Far North by the United States in 1846–8, and the European debt-collecting Intervention in 1861. This study examines the Mexican responses to these setbacks, culminating in the Liberal Reform Movement from 1855 and the opposition to it.
Esta obra ofrece una historia de las sociabilidades mediadas por el consumo de embriagantes en la ciudad de México del Porfiriato tardío a la Posrevolución. Este libro combina enfoques de la historia social, cultural, urbana y de género para comprender el mundo de las pulquerías, cantinas y, en general, los despachos de bebidas embriagantes en un periodo caracterizado por la crisis económica, la inestabilidad política y el malestar social.
Este libro invita al lector a pensar históricamente la relación entre policía y sociedad en la Ciudad de México mediante un recorrido por las instituciones, los espacios, los sujetos y sus prácticas desde mediados del siglo XIX hasta mediados del XX. Al indagar sobre estos aspectos, se dibuja el rostro social de los sujetos que conformaron la policía y se examinan sus prácticas. Desde esta perspectiva, los agentes policiales desempeñaron un papel protagónico en la creación de las leyes de la calle, entendidas como un conjunto de arreglos en la aplicación discrecional de ordenamientos jurídicos. Este binomio ley de la calle comprende negociaciones cotidianas entre los agentes y la población urbana. Es decir, la política anudaba regulaciones formales lo mismo que decisiones imprevistas o francamente ilegales.
Las elecciones en el siglo XIX mexicano, sin ser democráticas, tuvieron un lugar y una función política fundamental que iba mucho más allá de un simple ritual legitimador de gobiernos republicanos. Tuvieron gran centralidad en la construcción de los poderes públicos, así como en los procesos de articulación de la sociedad política en sus diferentes niveles y momentos. Las elecciones decimonónicas constituyeron una forma muy importante de hacer política en el México de entonces —entretejidas con otras, como la acción periodística y los pronunciamientos militares. Normas y prácticas electorales se transformaron a lo largo del siglo y dieron lugar a procesos que, con periodos ...
Con caña y café. Las reformas liberales sobre tierras y aguas y el cambio del paisaje en el distrito de Teotitlán del Camino, Oaxaca, 1856-1915 El presente estudio se centra en el distrito oaxaqueño de Teotitlán del Camino desde mediados del siglo XIX hasta la segunda década del siglo XX. En él se observa el desarrollo y los resultados de las diversas dialécticas entre los intentos gubernamentales por aplicar en su jurisdicción la legislación liberal sobre la propiedad de la tierra, y la regulación del aprovechamiento de aguas, con las múltiples acciones –y relaciones- de los actores interesados en el aprovechamiento de tales recursos naturales.