Unrevolutionary Mexico The Birth of a Strange Dictatorship Paul Gillingham
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication date:
- 13 Jul 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780300253122
- Imprint:
- Yale University Press
- Dimensions:
- 464 pages: 235 x 156 x 30mm
- Illustrations:
- 37 b-w illus.
- Sales territories:
- World
Categories:
An essential history of how the Mexican Revolution gave way to a unique one-party state
In this book Paul Gillingham addresses how the Mexican Revolution (1910–1940) gave way to a capitalist dictatorship of exceptional resilience, where a single party ruled for seventy-one years. Yet while soldiers seized power across the rest of Latin America, in Mexico it was civilians who formed governments, moving punctiliously in and out of office through uninterrupted elections.
Drawing on two decades of archival research, Gillingham uses the political and social evolution of the states of Guerrero and Veracruz as starting points to explore this unique authoritarian state that thrived not despite but because of its contradictions. Mexico during the pivotal decades of the mid-twentieth century is revealed as a place where soldiers prevented military rule, a single party lost its own rigged elections, corruption fostered legitimacy, violence was despised but decisive, and a potentially suffocating propaganda coexisted with a critical press and a disbelieving public.
Paul Gillingham is associate professor of history at Northwestern University. His book Cuauhtémoc’s Bones: Forging National Identity in Modern Mexico won the Conference on Latin American History’s Mexican History Book Prize.
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