History 280E Office hours: Monday 10-12

Spring 2017 Dwinelle 3125

Professor Margaret Chowning chowning@berkeley.edu

Recent Works on Modern Mexico in Historiographical Perspective

The common reading in this course consists of recently-published books or articles that are
either very good, representing current approaches to historical analysis of the period from
independence to the 1980s, or newly-published books the professor would like to read (in
the hopes that they, too, are good books). Each week there will be supplementary reading
that will represent the some of the “historiographical background” to the week’s common
reading. “Historiography” means in part the classic works by Mexican, U.S., and other
scholars from the nineteenth century through the 1950s. “Historiography” will also be taken
to mean books published in the 1960s-80s that more recently-published books build on or
revise. The professor will ordinarily pontificate for 20 minutes or so at the beginning of
each class on the general historiographical context into which the week’s readings fit. The
course is thus ideally suited to preparing an orals field in modern Mexico. Students will
write two 7-10 page review essays, based on the readings for one week plus 2-3 extra books
from the supplemental reading. They will also lead the discussion that week.

Jan. 17. Introduction to the class. The themes of modernization and opposition to
modernization (i.e. conservatism) that run through the whole semester; tentative assignment
of readings.

Part I: Independence and Early Modernity, 1750-1850

Week 1 (Jan. 24): The modernization of politics: from the Bourbons to the Reform

Common reading:

Peter Guardino, The Time of Liberty. Duke 2005.

Eric Van Young , “The Limits of Atlantic-World Nationalism in a Revolutionary Age:

Imagined Communities and Lived Communities in Mexico, 1810-1821,” in Empire to
Nation: Historical Perspectives on the Making of the Modern World, eds. Joseph Esherick et
al. (New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006).

Francois-Xavier Guerra, “Forms of Communication, Political Spaces, and Cultural Identities

in the Creation of Spanish American Nations,” in Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading
and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-century Latin America, ed. Sara Castro-Klaren et al.
Johns Hopkins Press, 2003.

Additional reading:

Classic treatments of the independence and early national period:

Lucas Alamán, Historia de Méjico de Méjico desde los primeros movimientos que preparan
su independencia hasta la época presente. 5 vols, 1849-52. Vol. 5

Servando Teresa de Mier, Historia de la revolución de Nueva España, 2 vols., London,

1813.

Carlos Bustamante, Cuadro histórico de la revolución de la América Mejicana (1823).

Nettie Lee Benson, La diputación provincial y el federalismo mexicano. 1955. Later

published in English as The Provincial Diputation in Mexico: Harbinger of Provincial
Autonomy, Independence, and Federalism.

Luis Villoro, El proceso ideológico de la revolución de independencia. 1967.

Lillian Estelle Fisher, The Background of the Revolution for Mexican Independence (Boston,
1934). Emphasizes Mexico’s receptivity to new political and philosophical ideas.

Additional reading:

Citizenship, constitutions, state-building in the new nation

François-Xavier Guerra, Modernidad e independencias: Ensayos sobre las revoluciones

hispánicas (Madrid: Editorial MAPFRE, 1992).
Antonio Annino, Inventando la nacion. Iberoamerica siglo. FCE, 2003. Edited volume

Alfredo Ávila, “De las independencias a la modernidad: Notas sobre un cambio

historiográfico,” in Conceptualizar lo que se ve: François-Xavier Guerra, historiador,
homenaje, eds. Erika Pani and Alicia Salmerón (Mexico: Instituto Mora, 2004).

Alfredo Ávila, En nombre de la nación: La formación del gobierno representativo en

México, 1808-1824 (Mexico City: Taurus, 2002). Short good treatment of these years.

Jaime Rodríguez, “We Are Now the True Spaniards”: Sovereignty, Revolution,
Independence, and the Emergence of the Federal Republic of Mexico, 1808-1824 (Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 2012).
Nettie Lee Benson, ed., Mexico and the Spanish Cortes, 1810-1822 (Austin: University of
Texas press, 1968)

Guerra, Modernidades e independencias

Roberto Breña, En el umbral de las revoluciones hispánicas: El bienio 1808-1810 (Mexico

City: El Colegio de México, 2010.

Roberto Breña, El primer liberalismo español y los procesos de emanicpación de América,

1808-1824 (México: El Colegio de México, 2006). Pivotal work on the politics and
ideology, participations and limitations of the Cádiz process.

Hilda Sabato (ed.), Ciudadanía política y formación de las naciones perspectivas históricas
de América Latina (Mexico City: El Colegio de México, Fondo de Cultura Económica,
1999). Includes: Antonio Annino, ‘Ciudadanía versus gobernabilidad republicana en
México: Los orígenes de un dilema’, and Marcello Carmagnani and Alicia Hernández
Chávez, ‘La ciudadanía orgánica mexicana.”

Erika Pani, ‘"Actors on a Most Conspicuous Stage": The Citizens of Revolution’, Historical
Reflections/Réfléctions Historiques 29 (2003), pp. 163–88.

Alfredo Avila, En nombre de la nación: La formación del gobierno representativo en

México, 1808-1824. Mexico City, CIDE, 2002.

Javier Ocampo. Las ideas de un día. 1969.

José Antonio Serrano Ortega, Jerarquía territorial y transición política. Guanajuato, 1790-
1836, México, El Colegio de Michoacán-Instituto Mora, 2001.

Erika Pani, “Ciudadana y muy ciudadana'? Women and the State in Independent Mexico,
1810-30,” Gender & History 18:1 Abril, 2006.

François-Xavier Guerra and Annick Lempérière (eds), Los espacios públicos en

Iberoamérica ambigüedades y problemas, siglos XVIII–XIX, (Mexico City: Fondo de
Cultura Económica, CEMCA, 1998). Includes some on Mexico.

Rafael Rojas, La escritura de la independencia: El surgimiento de la opinión pública en

México (Mexico City: CIDE, Taurus, 2003).

Claudia Guarisco. Los indios del valle de México y la construcción de una nueva
sociabilidad política, 1770–1835. Zinacantepec, Mexico: El Colegio Mexiquense, A.C.
2003.

Jaime Rodríguez, ed. The Divine Charter: Constitutionalism and Liberalism in Nineteenth-
Century Mexico. Latin American Silhouettes. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
An eclectic volume with some very good articles, loosely organized around different
meanings of “republicanism” and “liberalism.” From res publicae to republic : the evolution
of republicanism in early Mexico / Alicia Hernández Chávez -- "Ningún pueblo es superior
a otro" : Oaxaca and Mexican federalism / Jaime E. Rodríguez O. -- Masonic connections,
pecuniary interests, and institutional development along Mexico's far north / Andrés
Reséndez -- Maximilian and the construction of the liberal state, 1863-1866 / Robert H.
Duncan -- Kaleidoscopic views of liberalism triumphant, 1862-1895 / William H. Beezley --
The Enemy within : Catholics and liberalism in independent Mexico, 1821-1860 / Brian
Connaughton -- The militarization of politics or the politicization of the military? : the
novohispano and Mexican officer corps, 1810-1830 / Christon I. Archer -- Armed citizens :
the civic militia in the origins of the Mexican national state, 1812-1827 / Manuel Chust --
Cádiz liberalism and public finances : the direct contributions in Mexico, 1810-1835 / José
Antonio Serrano Ortega -- The vectors of liberal economic culture in Mexico / Marcello
Carmagnani -- The import trade policy of the liberal regime in Mexico, 1870-1900 / Sandra
Kuntz Ficker.

Silvia Marina Arrom, Containing the Poor: The Mexico City Poor House, 1774-1871.
Durham, 2001.

Lee M. Penyak, “Safe Harbors and Compulsory Custody: Casas de Depósito in Mexico,
1750-1865,” Hispanic American Historical Review 79:1 (Feb. 1999).

Linda Arnold, Política y justicia: La Suprema Corte Mexicana 1824-1855. Mexico:

UNAM, 1996.

Christon I. Archer, ed., The Birth of Modern Mexico, 1780-1824. Scholarly Resources,
2003. Includes articles by many of the early archival studies of the early post-independence
era, but focuses closely on institution building, with some exceptions e.g. Van Young’s
article. In the gloomy caverns of paganism : popular culture, insurgency, and nation-
building in Mexico, 1800-1821 / Eric Van Young -- An "absurd insurrection"? : Creole
insecurity, pro-Spanish propaganda, and the Hidalgo revolt / Hugh M. Hamill -- The
conspiracies of 1811 : how the criollos learned to organize in secret / Virginia Guedea -- A
mercantile family confronts war and insurrection : the Iturbe e Iraetas in the era of Mexican
independence / John E. Kicza -- Years of decision : Félix Calleja and the strategy to end the
revolution of New Spain / Christon I. Archer -- Mexican mining and independence : the saga
of enticing opportunities / Anne Staples -- The millennium and Mexican independence :
some interpretations / Paul J. Vanderwood -- Agustín de Iturbide and the process of
consensus / Timothy E. Anna -- The struggle for dominance : the legislature versus the
executive in early Mexico / Jaime E. Rodríguez O.

Jaime Rodriguez, ed., Mexico in the Age of Democratic Revolutions, 1750-1850. Boulder,
1994. The articles in this collection are meant to address the question of how much changed
with independence. Mexico in the age of democratic revolutions / Jaime E. Rodriguez O. --
Del paternalismo autoritario al autoritarismo burocrático : los éxitos y fracasos de José de
Galvez (1764-1767) / Felipe Castro Gutiérrez -- La reforma institucional en ciernes : la
gestión de Pedro Corbalán como intendente de Real Hacienda en Sonora y Sinaloa (1770-
1787) / Ignacio del Rio -- The Bourbon reforms, city councils, and the struggle for power in
Yucatán, 1770-1796 / Robert W. Patch -- Ignaciao Adalid, un equilibrista novohispano /
Virginia Guedea -- The transition from colony to nation : new Spain, 1820-1821 / Jaime E.
Rodriguez O. -- Mier y la constitución de México / Andrés Lira González --Issues and
factions in the constituent Congress, 1823-1824 / David M. Quinlan. El federalismo en la
construcción de los estados / Hira de Gortari Rabiela -- Clerics as politicians : church, state,
and political power in independent Mexico / Anne Staples -- Hombres de bien in the Age of
Santa Anna / Michael P. Costeloe -- What goes around comes around : political change and
continuity in Mexico, 1750-1850 / Christon I. Archer -- The emperor goes to the tailor /
Barbara A. Tenenbaum.

Timothy Anna, Forging Mexico, 1821-1835. Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1998. Following
Benson.

Will Fowler, Mexico in the Age of Proposals, 1821-1851. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood
Press, 1998.

Josefina Vázquez, ed. El establecimiento del federalismo en México (1821–1827). Mexico

City: El Colegio de México, 2003. Edited volume; roots of the federalist system in
independent Mexico.

Costeloe, Michael. La primera república federal de México (1824-1835) Cambridge, 1975.

Karen Deborah Caplan, “The Legal Revolution in Town Politics: Oaxaca and Yucatán,
1812-1825,” Hispanic American Historical Review 83:2 (May, 2003).

José Antonio Aguilar Rivera, En pos de la quimera: reflexiones sobre el experimento

constitutional atlántico. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2000.

Jaime E. Rodriguez O., "Two Revolutions: France 1789 and Mexico 1810," The Americas
47, no. 2 (Oct. 1990), 161-176.

Antonio Escobar Ohmstede, “Del gobierno indígena al ayunamiento constitucional en las

huastecas hidalguense y veracruzana, 1780-1853,” Mexican Studies/Estudios mexicanos
12:1 (1996).

Christon Archer, "Discord, Disjunction, and Reveries of Past and Future Glories: Mexico's
First Decades of Independence, 1810-1853," Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 16:1
(2000).

Ernesto de la Torre Villar, La Constitución de Apatzingán y los creadores del estado

mexicano. Mexico, 1978.

Popular Liberalism
Peter Guardino, Peasants, Politics, and the Formation of Mexico’s National State:
Guerrero, 1800-1857. Stanford, 1996.

Florencia E. Mallon, Peasant and Nation. The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru.
Berkeley, 1994.

Antonio Annino, “The Two-Faced Janus: The Pueblos and the Origins of Mexican
Liberalism,” in Cycles of Conflict, Centuries of Change: Crisis, Reform, and Revolution in
Mexico, ed. Elisa Servin, Leticia Reina, and John Tutino. Duke, 2007.

Torcuato S. Di Tella, National Popular Politics in Early Independent Mexico, 1820-1847.

Albuquerque, 1996.

Richard A. Warren, Vagrants and Citizens: Politics and the Masses in Mexico City from
Colony to Republic. Latin American Silhouettes. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources,
2001.

Rosalina Rios Zuniga, Formar ciudadanos : sociedad civil y movilizacion popular en

Zacatecas, 1821-1853 / Rosalina Rios Zuñiga. UNAM, 2005.

Michael T. Ducey, An Nation of Villages. Riot and Rebellion in the Mexican Huasteca,
1750-1850. U. Arizona, 2004

Michael T. Ducey, “Village, Nation, and Constitution: Insurgent Politics in Papantla,

Veracruz, 1810-1821,” Hispanic American Historical Review, 79:3 (1999)

Alan Knight, "Peasants into Patriots: Thoughts on the Making of the Mexican Nation,"
Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 10:1 (1994).

Guy Thomson, "Bulwarks of Patriotic Liberalism: the National Guard, Philharmonic Corps
and Patriotic Juntas in Mexico, 1847-48," Journal of Latin American Studies 22:1 (February
1990), pp. 31-68.

Carmen Salinas Sandoval and Diana Birrichaga Gardida, “Conflicto y aceptación

ante el liberalismo: Los pueblos del Estado de Mexico, 1856-1876,” in Antonio
Escobar Ohmstede, Los pueblos indios en los tiempos de Benito Juárez. Los
nueve ensayos aqui reunidos rinden cuenta de las diversas formas como la
comunidad indigena vivio, enfrento, confronto, se refuncionalizo y finalmente
sobrevivio a la modernizacion liberal del siglo XIX.

Elite Liberalism and the Coming of the Reform

Charles A. Hale, Mexican Liberalism in the Age of Mora. Yale University Press, 1968.
Margaret Chowning, Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico: Michoacán from the Late
Colony to the Revolution. I think it’s chapter 4 that gives my interpretation of the coming of
the Reform.

Jan Bazant, Alienation of Church Wealth in Mexico: Social and Economic Aspects of the
Liberal Revolution, 1856-1875. Cambridge, 1971.

Richard N. Sinkin, The Mexican Reform, 1855-1876: A Study in Liberal Nation-Building

(Austin, 1979).

Brian Hamnett, Juárez (New York: The Longman Group, 1994).

Charles R. Berry, The Reform in Oaxaca, 1856-1876: A Micro-history of the Liberal

Revolucion in Oaxaca. University of Nebraska Press, 1981.

Powell, T. G. "Priests and Peasants in Central Mexico: Social Conflict During 'La
Reforma,'" HAHR 57:2 (1977).

Jacqueline Covo, Las ideas de la Reforma en México (1855-1861) , México: UNAM, 1983.

Erika Pani, “Entre transformar y gobernar: la Constitución de 1857,” in Historia y Política, no.
11, 2004, pp. 65-86.

The War with the U.S. and the Crisis of Mexican Politics

Brian DeLay, War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War. Yale,
2008.

Peter Guardino, "Gendering, Soldiering, and Citizenship in the Mexican-American War of 1846-
1848" AHR Feb 2014: 23-46

Andrés Reséndez, Changing National Identities at the Frontier : Texas and New Mexico, 1800-
1850. Cambridge, 2004.

Charles Hale, "The War With the United States and the Crisis in Mexican Thought," The
Americas (14) 1957.

Irving W. Levinson. Wars within Wars: Mexican Guerrillas, Domestic Elites, and the United
States of America, 1846–1848. TCU Press, 2005.

Fernando Díaz Díaz, Caudillos y caciques: Antonio López de Santa Anna y Juan Alvarez.
Mexico City, 1972.

Moisés González Navarro, Anatomía del poder en México, 1848-1853. Mexico City, 1977.
Leticia Mayer Celis, Entre el infierno de una realidad y el cielo de un imaginario: Estadistica y
comunidad cientifica en el Mexico de la primera mitad del siglo XIX. Colegio de Mexico, 1999.
Week 2 (Jan 31): Conservative Resistance and Adjustment

Common reading:

Benjamin T. Smith, The Roots of Conservatism in Mexico: Catholicism, Society, and

Politics in the Mixteca Baja, 1750-1962, University of New Mexico Press, 2012. Introduction
and chapters 1, 2, and 3.

Pamela Voekel, Alone Before God: The Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico.
Duke, 2002. Chapters 2 and 6.

Matthew O’Hara, A Flock Divided: Race, Religion and Politics in Mexico, 1749-1857.
Duke, 2010. Chapter 5.

Margaret Chowning, “The Catholic Church and the Ladies of the Vela Perpetua:
Gender and Devotional Change in Nineteenth-Century Mexico,” Past & Present, no. 221,
November 2013.

Additional reading:

Brian F. Connaughton, "Conjuring the Body Politic from the Corpus Mysticum: The Post-
Independent Pursuit of Public Opinion in Mexico, 1821-1854," The Americas 55:3 (January
1999), pp. 459-480.

Annick Lempériere, "Nación moderna o república barroca? México, 1823-1857," in Francois-

Xavier Guerra and Monica Quijada, eds., Imaginar la nación (Munster: Lit, 1994).

Brian Connaughton, Ideología y sociedad en Guadalajara, 1788-1853. Mexico, 1992.

Translated as Clerical Ideology in a Revolutionary Age: The Guadalajara Church and the Idea
of the Mexican Nation.

Will Fowler, Independent Mexico: The Pronunciamiento in the Age of Santa Anna, 1821-1858.
U. Nebraska, 2016. See also the first three volumes in this series based on a database of
pronunciamientos (available online): Forceful Negotiations: The Origins of the
Pronunciamiento in Nineteenth-Century Mexico (2010); Malcontents, Rebels, and
“Pronunciados”: The Politics of Insurrection in Nineteenth-Century Mexico (2012); and
Celebrating Insurrection: The Commemoration and Representation of the Nineteenth-Century
Mexican Pronunciamiento (2012).

Gastón García Cantu, El pensamiento de la reacción mexicana: historia documental, 1810-1962

(Mexico City: Empresas Editores, 1965).

William Fowler y Humberto Morales Moreno, coords., El conservadurismo mexicano en el siglo

XIX, Puebla, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, 1999.
Aaron Van Oosterhout, “Confraternities and Popular Conservatism on the Frontier: Mexico’s
Sierra del Nayarit in the Nineteenth Century,” The Americas 71: no. 1 (July 2014), 101-130; and
id., “Popular Conservatism in Mexico,” chapters 2 and 3.

Margaret Chowning, Rebellious Nuns: The Troubled History of a Mexican Convent. Oxford,
2006. Chapter 6 and epilogue.

Terry Rugeley, Of Wonders and Wise Men: Religion and Popular Cultures in Southeast
Mexico,1800-1876. Univ. of Texas Press, 2001.

Costeloe, Michael. Church Wealth in Mexico. A Study of the "Juzgado de Capellanias" in the
Archbishopric of Mexico, 1800-1856. Cambridge University Press, 1967.

Juvenal Jaramillo M., “El poder y la razón. El episcopado y el cabildo eclesiástico de Michoacán
ante las Leyes de Reforma”, en Jaime Olveda, ed., Los obispados de México frente a la Reforma
liberal, México, El Colegio de Jalisco / Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana / Universidad
Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, 2007.

Viva Mexico! Viva La Independencia! Celebrations of September 16. Edited by William H.

Beezley and David E. Lorey. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2001.

Margaret Chowning, "The Management of Church Property in Michoacán, Mexico,1810-1856:

Economic Motivations and Political Implications," Journal of Latin American Studies (October,
1990).

Alvaro Matute and Brian Connaughton, eds., Iglesia, Estado y Sociedad en el siglo XIX.

Manuel Ramos, ed., Historia de la Iglesia en el Siglo XIX. Imprint Chimalistac, México, D.F. :
Centro de Estudios de Historia de México Condumex, 1998. Many good articles.

Laura M. Shelton, For Tranquility and Order: Family and Community on Mexico’s Northern
Frontier, 1800-1850. U. Arizona.

Rios Zuniga, Rosalina. De la educación de la colonia a la república: El Colegio de San Luis

Gonzaga y el Instituto Literario de Zacatecas. UNAM, 2002.

Indigenous resistance

Brian Hamnett, “Mexican Conservatives, Clericals, and Soldiers: The ‘Traitor’ Tomás Mejía
through Reform and Empire, 1855-1867”, Bulletin of Latin American Research, vol. 20, no. 2,
pp. 187-209, 2001

Brian Hamnett, “Liberales y conservadores ante el mundo de los pueblos, 1840-1870”, en

Manuel Ferrer Muñoz, coord., Los pueblos indígenas y el parteaguas de la Independencia de
México, México, UNAM, 1999.

Daniela Traffano, “‘No se les absuelva mientras no retracten...’ Iglesia y Reforma en el estado de
Oaxaca, 1856-1887”, in Jaime Olveda, ed., Los obispados de México frente a la Reforma liberal,
México, El Colegio de Jalisco / Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana / Universidad Autónoma
Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, 2007.

Rocío Ortiz Herrera, Pueblos indios, Iglesia Católica y élites políticas en Chiapas (1824-1901).
Una perspectiva comparada, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Gobierno del Estado de Chiapas, 2003.

Terry Rugeley, The River People in Flood Time: The Civil Wars in Tabasco, Spoiler of Empires,
Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2014.

Terry Rugeley, Yucatán’s Maya Peasantry and the Origins of the Caste War, Austin, University
of Texas Press, 1996.

Raymond Buve, Autonomía, religión y bandidaje: Tlaxcala en la antesala de la Guerra de

Reforma, 1853-1857, México, CONDUMEX, 1997.

John M. Hart, "The 1840s Southwestern Mexico Peasants' War: Conflict in a Transitional
Society," in Friedrich Katz, ed., Riot, Rebellion and Revolution: Rural Social Conflict in Mexico
(Princeton, 1988)

Terry Rugeley, Rebellion Now and Forever: Mayas, Hispanics, and Caste War Violence in
Yucatan, 1800-1880. Princeton, 2008.

Andrés Lira, Comunidades indigenas frente a la ciudad de Mexico : Tenochtitlan y Tlatelolco,

sus pueblos y barrios, 1812-1919. Colegio de Mexico, 1983.

Terry Rugeley, Yucatan's Maya Peasantry and the Origins of the Caste War. Texas, 1996.

Jean Meyer, Problemas campesinos y revueltas agrarias (1821-1910). Mexico, 1973.

Leticia Reina, Las rebeliones campesinas en México, 1819-1906 (Mexico, 1980).

Week 3 (Feb. 7): The modernization of economic and social relations (including gender)
before the Reform

Common reading:

John Tutino, From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico: Social Bases of Agrarian Violence,
1750-1940. Princeton, 1986. Chapters 2, 3, and 6.

Margaret Chowning, "Reassessing the Prospects for Profit and Productivity in Nineteenth-Century
Mexico," in Stephen H. Haber, ed., How Latin America Fell Behind. Stanford University Press,
1997.

John Tutino, “The Revolution in Mexican Independence: Insurgency and the Renegotiation of
Property, Production, and Patriarchy in the Bajío, 1800-1855.” Hispanic American Historical
Review 78:3 (August, 1998).

Additional reading

Socio-economic changes

John Coatsworth, "Obstacles to Economic Growth in Nineteenth-Century Mexico," American

Historical Review, Feb. 1978.

Margaret Chowning, Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico: Michoacán from the Late Colony
to the Revolution. Stanford, 1999.

Enrique Semo, Historia mexicana: economía y lucha de clases. Mexico, 1978.

Luis Chávez Orozco, Historia ecónomica y social de México. Mexico, 1938.

David Brading, Haciendas and Ranchos in the Mexican Bajío: León, 1700-1860. Cambridge
University Press, 1979.

Jan Bazant, Cinco haciendas mexicanos. Tres siglos de vida rural en San Luis Potosí (1600-
1910). Mexico City, 1975.

John Coatsworth, "La decadencia de la economía mexicana, 1800-1860." In John Coatsworth,

Los orígenes del atraso: nueve ensayos de historia económica de México en los siglos XVIII y
XIX. Mexico City, 1990.

Walther Bernecker, De agiotistas y empesarios: en torno de la temprana industrialización

mexicana (siglo XIX) (Mexico City: Universidad Iberoamericana, 1992). For national debates on
free trade and industrial development
Jan Bazant, “Landlord, laborer, and tenant in San Luis Potosí, northern Mexico, 1822-1910." In
Kenneth Duncan and Ian Rutledge, eds., Land and Labor in Latin America. Cambridge, 1977.

Brian Hamnett, Roots of Insurgency: Mexican Regions, 1750-1824. Cambridge University

press, 1986.

Brian Hamnett, “Between Bourbon Reforms and Liberal Reforma: The Political Economy of a
Mexican Province-Oaxaca, 1750-1850,” in Kenneth Andrien and Lyman Johnson, eds. The
Political Economy of Spanish America in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850, (Albuquerque:
University of New Mexico Press, 1994).

Stuart Voss, On the Periphery of Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Sonora and Sinaloa, 1810-1877.
Tucson, 1982.

Mario Camarena Ocampo, Jornaleros, tejedores y obreros. Historia social de los trabajadores
textiles de San Ángel (1850-1930), México, Plaza y Valdés editores, 2001

Robert Potash, El banco de avío y el fomento de la industria nacional. Mexico, 1966. Also in
English as Mexican government and industrial development in the early republic: the Banco de
Avio. Amherst, 1983.

John Tutino, "Hacienda Social Relations in Mexico: The Chalco Region in the Era of
Independence." Hispanic American Historical Review 55:3 (1975).

John Tutino, “Agrarian Social Change and Peasant Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Mexico:
The Example of Chalco." In Friedrich Katz, ed., Riot, Rebellion and Revolution: Rural Social
Conflict in Mexico. Princeton, 1988.

Juan Carlos Garavaglia and Juan Grosso, “El comportamiento demográfico de una parroquia
poblana de la colonia al México independiente: Tepeaca y su entorno agrario, 1740-1850,”
Historia Mexicana 40:4 (Apr.-June 1991).

Sonia Pérez Toledo, Los hijos del trabajo: los artesanos de la ciudad de Mexico, 1780-1853.
Mexico City: Colegio de Mexico, 1996.

Richard J. Salvucci. Textiles and Capitalism in Mexico: An Economic History of the Obrajes,
1539-1840. Princeton, 1987.

Richard Salvucci and Linda K. Salvucci, "Crecimiento económico y cambio de la productividad

en México, 1750-1895," HISLA Revista Latinoamericana de Historia Economica y Social 10
(1987), 67-89.

Thomson, Guy P. C. Puebla de los Angeles: Industry and Society in a Mexican City, 1700-
1850. Boulder, 1989.
Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez, “Neglected Citizens and Willing Traders: The Villas del Norte
(Tamaulipas) in Mexico’s Northern borderlands, 1749-1846,” Mexican Studies/Estudios
mexicanos 18:2 (Summer, 2002).

David W. Walker, Kinship, Business, and Politics: The Martínez del Río Family in Mexico,
1824-1867. University of Texas Press, 1986.

Donald F. Stevens, Origins of Instability in Early Republican Mexico. Durham, 1990.

Barbara Tennenbaum, The politics of penury : debt and taxes in Mexico, 1821-1856.
Albuquerque, 1986.

Simon Miller, "The Mexican Hacienda between the Insurgency and the Revolution: Maize
Production and Commercial Triumph on the Temporal." Journal of Latin American Studies 16:2
(1984): 309-35.

Simon Miller, “ Mexican Junkers and Capitalist haciendas, 1810-1910: The Arable Estate and
the Transition to Capitalism between the Insurgency and the Revolution." Journal of Latin
American Studies 22:2 (1990): 229-63.

David A. Brading and Celia Wu, "Population Growth and Crisis: Leon, 1720-1860," Journal of
Latin American Studies 5 (May, 1973), 1-36.

Cardoso, Ciro, ed. Mexico en el siglo XIX: 1821-1910. Historia económica y de la estructura
social (1980).

Angel Bassols Batalla, Mexico: formacion de regiones economicas. Mexico, 1979. Stresses
expansion of regionalism from independence to 1880.

Josefina Vázquez, "Los años olvidados," Mexican Studies/estudios mexicanos 5:2 (Summer
1989).

Francisco López Cámara, La estructura económico y social de México en la época de la Reforma

(Mexico, 1967).

Mario Cerruti, ed., El siglo XIX en Mexico: cinco procesos regionales: Morelos, Monterrey,
Yucatán, Jalisco y Puebla (Mexico, 1985)

Rosa María Meyer Cosío, "Empresarios, crédito y especulación (1820-1880)," in Leonor Ludlow
and Carlos Marichal, eds., Banca y poder en México (1800-1925) (Mexico, 1986)

Barbara Tenenbaum, "Banqueros sin bancos: el papel de los agiotistas en México (1826-1854),"
in Leonor Ludlow and Carlos Marichal, eds., Banca y poder en México (1800-1925) (Mexico,
1986).
Héctor Díaz-Polanco, Formación regional y burguesía agraria en Mexico: Valle de Santiago, El
Bajío (Mexico, 1982).

Enrique Cárdenas S., "Algunas cuestiones sobre la depresión mejicana del XIX," HISLA:
Revista Latinoamericana de Historia Económica y Social: 3.

Gender relations

Margaret Chowning, “The Catholic Church and the Ladies of the Vela Perpetua: Gender and
Devotional Change in Nineteenth-Century Mexico,” Past & Present November 2013.

Erika Pani (2006) ‘Ciudadana y muy ciudadana’? Women and the State in Independent Mexico,
1810-30,” Gender & History 18 (1) , 5–19.

Silvia Marina Arrom, The Women of Mexico City, 1790-1857. Stanford, 1985.

Soledad González Montes and Pilar Iracheta Cenegorta, “La violencia en la vida de las mujeres
campesinas: El distrito de Tanango, 1830-1910,” in Carmén Ramos Escandón, ed., Presencia y
transparencia: La Mujer en la historia de México (Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 1987.

Soledad González Montes, “Trabajo femenino y expansion de las relaciones capitalistas en el

Mexico rural a fines del Porfiriato: El distrito de Tenango del Valle, Estado de Mexico, 1900-
1910,’ in Manuel Miño, ed., Haciendas, pueblos y comunidades: Los valles de Mexico y Toluca
entre 1530 y 1916 (Mexico City: CONACULTA, 1991).

Charles A. Witschorik, Preaching power: Gender, Politics, and Official Catholic Church
Discourses in Mexico City, 1720-1875. Pickwick Publications, 2013.

Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750-1856.
Nebraska,

Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, “Marriage and Family Relations in Mexico during the Transition from
Colony to Nation,” in State and Society in Spanish American during the Age of Revolution, ed.
victor Uribe-Uran. Scholarly Resources, 2001.

Deborah Kanter, Hijos del Pueblo: Gender, Family, and Community in Rural Mexico, 1730-
1850. U Texas, 2009.

Kathryn Sloan, Runaway Daughters: Seduction, Elopement, and Honor in Nineteenth-Century

mexico. New Mexico, 2008.

Elizabeth Anne Kuznesof, “Gender Ideology, Race, and Female-Headed Households in Urban
Mexico, 1750-1850,” in in State and Society in Spanish America during the Age of Revolution,
ed. Victor M. Uribe-Uran (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 2001).
Ana Lidia García Peña, “El encierro de las esposas y las prácticas policiacas en la época de la
independencia,” in 1750-1850: La independencia de México a la luz de cien años, ed. Brian
Connaughton (Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and Ediciones del Lirio,
2009).
Part II: Middle Modernity: The Reform, the Restored Republic and the Porfiriato

Week 4 (Feb. 14): The modernization of economic and social relations in the aftermath of
the Reform: privatization of communal and church property.

Common reading:

Emilio Kouri, A Pueblo Divided: Business, Property, and Community in Papantla, Mexico.
Stanford, 2004. All but chapter 6.

John Tutino, From Insurrection to Revolution. Chapter 7.

Margaret Chowning, Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico: Michoacán from the Late Colony
to the Revolution, chapters 5 and 6.

Florencia Mallon, “Reflections on the Ruins: Everyday Forms of State Formation in Nineteenth-
Century Mexico,” in Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniel Nugent, eds., Everyday Forms of State
Formation in Mexico. Duke, 1994.

Classics:

Daniel Cosío Villegas, Historia moderna de México. 1955-1972. For a summary see Charles
Hale, "The Liberal Impulse: Daniel Cosio Villegas and the Historia moderna de Mexico,"
Hispanic American Historical Review, 54: 3 (1974).

Francisco Bulnes, El verdadero Juárez y la verdad sobre la Intervención y el Imperio. Mexico

City, 1904. And on Bulnes see: David A. Brading, “Francisco Bulnes y la verdad acerca de
México en el siglo xix,” Historia Mexicana 45:3 (1996).
http://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/pdf/13/art_13_1938_16337.pdf

Vicente Riva Palacio, México a través de los siglos. 11 vols. 1887-89.

Additional reading:

Liberalism in the aftermath of the Reform

Alan Knight, "El liberalismo mexicano desde la Reforma hasta la Revolucion (una
interpretacion), Historia mexicana 35:1 (July-Sept. 1985), pp. 59-91.
Florencia E. Mallon, Peasant and Nation. The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru.
Berkeley, 1994.

Moisés González Navarro, "Tipología del liberalismo mexicano," Historia mexicana 32:2
(1982).

Jesús Reyes Heroles, El liberalismo mexicano. Mexico, UNAM Facultad de Derecho,

1957-61.

Brian R. Hamnett, "Liberalism Divided: Regional Politics and the National Project During
the Mexican Restored Republic, 1867-1876." Hispanic American Historical Review 76,
no. 4 (1996): 659-689.

Francois-Xavier Guerra, “Mexico from Independence to Revolution: The Mutations of

Liberalism,” in Elisa Servín, Leticia Reina, and John Tutino, eds., Cycles of Conflict,
Centuries of Change: Crisis, Reform and Revolution in Mexico. Duke, 2007.

Guy P. C. Thomson, Patriotism, Politics, and Popular Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century

Mexico: Juan Francisco Lucas and the Puebla Sierra. With David G. LaFrance.
Wilmington, Scholarly Resources, 1998.

Francie Chassen-López, From Liberal to Revolutionary Oaxaca: The View from the
South, Mexico, 1867-1911. Penn State Press, 2004.

Guy P. C. Thomson, "Popular Aspects of Liberalism in Mexico, 1848-1888," Bulletin of

Latin American Research 10:2 (1991).

Laurens B. Parry, Juárez and Díaz: Machine Politics in Mexico. Northern Illinois
University Press, 1978.

Richard N. Sinkin, The Mexican Reform, 1855-1876: A Study in Liberal Nation-Building.

University of Texas Press, 1979.

Brian Hamnett, Juárez (New York: The Longman Group, 1994).

Charles R. Berry, The Reform in Oaxaca, 1856-1876: A Micro-history of the Liberal

Revolucion in Oaxaca. University of Nebraska Press, 1981.

Powell, T. G. El liberalismo y el campesinado en el centro de Mexico (1850 a 1876).

Mexico City, 1974.

Effects on church
José Roberto Juárez, Reclaiming Church Wealth: The Recovery of Church Property After
Expropriation in the Archdiocese of Guadalajara, 1860-1911. University of New Mexico
Press, 2004.

Manuel Ceballos Ramírez, “La diócesis de Linares y la Reforma liberal, 1854-1864”, en J.

Olveda, ed., Los obispados de México frente a la Reforma liberal, México, El Colegio de
Jalisco / Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana / Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de
Oaxaca, 2007.

Alma Dorantes González, “Zacatecas: un obispado en ciernes. Clero y sociedad en la

Reforma”, en J. Olveda, ed., Los obispados de México frente a la Reforma liberal, México,
El Colegio de Jalisco / Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana / Universidad Autónoma
Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, 2007.

Jaime Olveda, “El obispo y el clero disidente de Guadalajara durante la Reforma liberal”, en
J. Olveda, ed., Los obispados de México frente a la Reforma liberal, México, El Colegio de
Jalisco / Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana / Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de
Oaxaca, 2007.

Bazant, Jan. Alienation of Church Wealth in Mexico: Social and Economic Aspects of the
Liberal Revolution, 1856-1875. Cambridge, 1971.

Powell, T. G. "Priests and Peasants in Central Mexico: Social Conflict During 'La
Reforma,'" HAHR 57:2 (1977).

Dora Elvia Enríquez Licón, “La Reforma en Sonora: élites políticas y eclesiásticas”, en J.
Olveda, ed., Los obispados de México frente a la Reforma liberal, México, El Colegio de
Jalisco / Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana / Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de
Oaxaca, 2007.

Social implications including effects on indigenous communities

Jennie Purnell, "'With All Due Respect: Popular Resistance to the Privatization of
Communal Land in Nineteenth-Century Michoacan," Latin American Research Review 34:1
(1999).

Jean Meyer, Esperando a Lozada. Guadalajara, 1989.

Gloria Camacho Pichardo, “Las sociedades agrícolas en los pueblos del sure del valle de
Toluca y la desamortización (1856-1900).” In La vida, el trabajo y la propiedad en el
estado de México: Los primeros juicios de amparo en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, ed.
César de Jésus Molina Suárez, René García Castro, and Ana Lidia García Peña. Mexico
City: Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación, 2007.

Brian Stauffer, “Community, Identity, and the Limits of Liberal State Formation in
Michoacán’s Coastal Sierra: Coalcomán, 1869-1940,” in Antonio Escobar Ohmstede and
Matthew Butler, eds., Mexico in Transition: New Perspectives on Mexican Agrarian
History, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries/México y sus transiciones: reconsideraciones
sobre la historia agraria mexicana, siglos XIX y XX (Mexico City/Austin:
CIESAS/LLILAS, 2013).

José de la Cruz Pacheco Rojas, Las Leyes de Reforma y su impacto en Durango, 1854-1861,
Durango, Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, 2006.

Diana Birrichaga, “La sublevación indígena y las reformas liberales en el Estado de México
(1855-1859)”, en Josefina Z. Vázquez, coord., Juárez. Historia y mito, México, El Colegio
de México, 2010, pp. 341-365.

Carmen Blázquez Domínguez, Veracruz liberal, 1858-1860, México, El Colegio de México,

1986.

Guadalupe Beatriz Aldaco, “El trono y el altar: pugnas entre Iglesia y Estado en Sonora
(1856-1860)”, en Memoria del XVII Simposio de Historia y Antropología, vol. 1,
Hermosillo, Universidad de Sonora, 1994, pp. 359-378.

Brian F. Connaughton, “1856-1857: conciencia religiosa y controversia ciudadana. La

conciencia como poder político en ‘un pueblo eminentemente católico’”, en Brian F.
Connaughton, coord., Prácticas populares, cultura política y poder en México, siglo XIX,
México, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana / Casa Juan Pablos, 2008

Dawn Fogle Deaton, “The Decade of Revolt: Peasant Rebellion in Jalisco, Mexico, 1855-
1864”, en Robert H. Jackson, ed., Liberals, the Church, and Indian Peasants: Corporate
Lands and the Challenge of Reform in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America, Albuquerque,
University of New Mexico Press, 1997, pp. 37-64.

Marta Eugenia García Ugarte, Poder político y religioso: México, siglo XIX, vol. I, México,
UNAM / Miguel Ángel Porrúa, 2010.

Gerald L. McGowan, Geografía político-administrativa de la Reforma. Una visión

histórica, Aguascalientes, El Colegio Mexiquense / INEGI, 1991.

Pablo Mijangos y González, The Lawyer of the Church: Bishop Clemente de Jesús Munguía
and the Clerical Response to the Mexican Liberal Reforma, Lincoln, University of Nebraska
Press, 2015.

Brigette Böehm, “Las comunidades de indígenas de Ixtlán y Pajacuarán ante la reforma

liberal en el siglo XIX,” in Antonio Escobar Ohmstede and Teresa Rojas Rabiela, eds.,
Estructuras y formas agrarias en México: del pasado y del presente (Mexico City: Registro
Agrario Nacional/Archivo General Agrario/CIESAS, 2001).

Jennie Purnell, “With All Due Respect: Popular Resistance to the Privatization of
Communal Lands in Nineteenth-Century Michoacán,” Latin American Research Review 34:
no. 1 (1999).
Raymond Craib, Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive
Landscapes (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004).

Antonio Escobar Ohmstede, “Los pueblos indios huastecos frente a las tendencias
modernizadores decimonónicos,” in Antonio Escobar Omhstede, Romana Falcón, and
Raymond Buve, eds., Pueblos, comunidades, y municipios frente a los proyectos
modernizadores en América Latina, siglo XIX (Amsterdam: Colsed-CEDLA, 2002).

Antonio Escobar Ohmstede and Franz J. Schryer, “Las sociedades agrarias en la Huasteca
hidalguense, 1856- 1900” Estudios Mexicanos/Mexican Studies 8: no. 1 (1992), 1-21.

Powell, T. G. "Priests and Peasants in Central Mexico: Social Conflict During 'La
Reforma,'" HAHR 57:2 (1977).

Powell, T. G. El liberalismo y el campesinado en el centro de Mexico (1850 a 1876).

Mexico City, 1974.

The French Intervention

Erika Pani, “Dreaming of a Mexican Empire: The Political Project of the “Imperialistas,”
Hispanic American Historica Review 82:1 (2002).

Erika Pani, El Segundo Imperio: pasados de usos multiples. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura
Económica/CIDE, 2004.

Aleksander Belenki, La intervención extranjera de 1861-1867 en México. Fondo de Cultura

Econónima, 1966.

Kristine Ibsen, Maximilian, Mexico, and the Invention of Empire. Vanderbilt University
Press, 2010. (Art history)

Robert H. Duncan, “Embracing a Suitable Past: Independence Celebrations under Mexico’s

Second Empire, 1864-66.” Journal of Latin American Studies 30 (1998).

Nancy Barker, “The Factor of ‘Race’ in the French Experience in Mexico, 1821-1861,”
Hispanic American Historical Review 59:1 (1979).

Todd W. Wahlstrom, The Southern Exodus to Mexico: Migration across the Borderlands
after the American Civil War. U. Nebraska, 2015.
Week 5 (Feb. 21): The modernization of the economy, society, and politics, 1880-1910

Common reading:

The Road to Revolution literature:

John Womack, Zapata. Chapters 1 and 2.

Friedrich Katz, The Life and Times of Pancho Villa. Stanford, 1998. Chapter 1.

The literature with an emphasis on modernization or cultural change (not

precursorist)

Edward Beatty, Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico. UC
Press, 2015. Introduction and Parts One and Three

Classics:

Justo Sierra, México: su evolución social. 3 vols. 1900-02.

Emilio Rabasa, La constitución y la dictadura. Estudio sobre la organización política de

México. 1912.

Francisco Bulnes, El verdadero Díaz y la revolución. 1920.

Francisco Bulnes, Las grandes mentiras de nuestra historia. Paris, 1904.

Andrés Molina Enriquez, Los grandes problemas nacionales. Mexico, 1909.

Winstano Luis Orozco, Legislación y jurisprudencia sobre terrenos baldíos. Mexico City,
1895.

Additional reading:

The Road to Revolution Literature

Francois-Xavier Guerra, Mexico: Del antiguo regimen a la revolución. 2 vols. Mexico City,
1988.

Alan Knight, The Mexican Revolution. Vol. 1: Porfirians, Liberals and Peasants.

John Tutino, From Insurrection to Revolution. Chapter 8

James Cockroft, Intellectual Precursors of the Mexican Revolution (Austin: University of
Texas Press, 1968).

Emilio Kouri, “Interpreting the Expropriation of Indian Pueblo Lands in Porfirian Mexico:
The Unexamined Legacies of Andrés Molina Enríquez,” HAHR 82:1 (Feb. 2002)

Charles Hale, The Transformation of Liberalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Mexico.

Princeton, 1989.

Francie Chassen-López, From Liberal to Revolutionary Oaxaca: The View from the South,
Mexico, 1867-1911. Penn State Press, 2004.

Gabriel L. Negretto and José Antonio Aguilar-Rivera, "Rethinking the Legacy of the Liberal
State in Latin America: The Cases of Argentina (1853-1916) and Mexico (1857-1910),"
Journal of Latin American Studies 32:2 (May, 2000).

Romana Falcón and Raymond Buve, eds., Don Porfirio Presidente…Nunca omnipotente:
Hallazgos, reflexiones y debates, 1876-1911. Mexico: Universidad Iberoamericana, 1999.

Paul Hart, Bitter Harvest: The Social Transformation of Morelos, Mexico, and the Origins of
the Zapatista Revolution, 1840-1910. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.

Miguel Tinker Salas, In the Shadow of the Eagles: Sonora and the Transformation of the
Border During the Porfiriato. UC press, 1997.

Jonathan Brown, Oil and Revolution in Mexico. Berkeley, 1993.

Jonathan Brown, "Domestic Politics and Foreign Investment: British Development of

Mexican Petroleum, 1890-1911," Business History Review 61 (1986).

Cumberland, Charles C. "Precursors of the Mexican Revolution of 1910," Hispanic American

Historical Review, 22: (1942).

Katz, Friedrich. "Labor Conditions on Haciendas in Porfirian Mexico," Hispanic American

Historical Review, 54: 1 (1974).

John Coatsworth, Growth Against Development: The Economic Impact of Railroads in

Porfirian Mexico. DeKalb, 1981.

Anderson, Rodney D. "Mexican Workers and the Politics of Revolution, 1906-1911," HAHR
54 (1974).

Anderson, Rodney D. Outcasts in their Own Land: Mexican Industrial Workers, 1906-1911.
DeKalb, 1976.
Meyers, William K. "Politics, Vested Rights, and Economic Growth in Porfirian Mexico," Hispanic
American Historical Review, 57: 3 (1977).

Vanderwood, Paul. "Mexico's Rurales: Image of a Society in Transition," Hispanic American Historical
Review, 61: 1 (1981).

Walker, David. "Porfirian Labor Politics: Working Class Organizations in Mexico City and Porfirio
Diaz," The Americas, 37: 3 (1981).

Wasserman, Mark. "Foreign Investment in Mexico, 1876-1910: A Case Study of the Role of
Regional Elites," The Americas, 36: 1 (1979).

Mark Wasserman, "The Social Origins of the 1910 Revolution in Chihuahua," Latin American
Research Review, 15: 1 (1980).

Jean-Pierre Bastian, Los disidentes: sociedades protestantes y revolución en Mexico, 1872-1911.

Mexico, 1989.

Moisés González Navarro, Las hueglas textiles en el porfiriato. Puebla, 1970.

Allen Wells and Gilbert M. Joseph, Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval: Elite Politics
and Rural Insurgency in Yucatan, 1876-1915. Stanford, 1996.

Allen Wells, Yucatán's Golden Age: Haciendas, Henequen and International Harvester, 1860-
1915. Albuquerque, 1985.

Thomas Benjamin and William McNellie, Other Mexicos: Essays on Regional Mexican History,
1876-1911. Albuquerque, 1984.

Mark Wasserman, Capitalists, Caciques, and Revolution: The Native Elite and Foreign
Enterprise in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1854-1911. University of North Carolina Press, 1984.

William K. Meyers, Forge of Progress, Crucible of Revolt: The Origins of the Mexican
Revolution in La Comerca Lagunera. University of New Mexico Press, 1994.

Paul Friedrich, Agrarian Revolt in a Mexican Village. Prentice Hall, 1970.

Moisés González Navarro, “Las ideas raciales de los científicos, 1890-1910,” Historia Mexicana
37:4 (1988).

Robert H. Holden, Mexico and the Survey of Public Lands: The Management of Modernization,
1876-1911. DeKalb, 1993.

William Schell, Integral Outsiders: The American Colony in Mexico City, 1876-1911. SR,
2001.
Karl Schmitt, “The Díaz Conciliation Policy on State and Local Levels, 1876-1911,” Hispanic
American Historical Review 40 (November, 1960).

Works on economic modernization, business, and labor (but not precursorist)

Mark Wasserman, Pesos and Politics: Business, Elites, Foreigners, and Government in Mexico,
1854-1940. Stanford, 2015.

Stephen H. Haber, Industry and Underdevelopment: The Industrialization of Mexico, 1890-

1940. Stanford, 1989.

Antonio Tortolero Villaseñor, De la coa a la maquina de vapor: Actividad agrícola y inovación

tecnológica en las haciendas mexicanas,1880-1914 (Mexico City: Siglo XXI, 1995). Mexican
estate agriculture before the revolution not backward.

Heather Fowler-Salamini, Working Women, Entrepreneurs, and the Mexican Revolution. U.

Nebrasta, 2013.

Edward Beatty, Institutions and Investments: The Political Basis of Industrialization in Mexico
before 1911. Stanford, 2001.

Ficker, Sandra Kuntz, “Economic Backwardness and Firm Strategy: An American Railroad
Corporation in Nineteenth-Century Mexico,” HAHR, 80:2 (2000)

Passananti, Thomas P. "Nada de Papeluchos!" Managing Globalization in Early Porfirian

México,” Latin American Research Review 42.3 (2007).

Jeffrey Pilcher, The Sausage Rebellion: Public Health, Private Enterprise, and Meat in Mexico
City, 1890-1917. University of New Mexico, 2006.

Paul Garner, British Lions and Mexican Eagles: Business, Politics, and Empire in the Career of
Weetman Pearson in Mexico, 1889-1919 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011).

John Hart, The Silver of the Sierra Madre: John Robinson, Boss Shepherd, and the People of the
Canyons. U. New Mexico, 2008.

Roger Horowitz, Jeffrey M. Pilcher, and Sydney Watts, “Meat for the Multitudes: Market
Culture in Paris, New York City, and Mexico City over the Long Nineteenth Century,” American
Historical Review 109:4 (October 2004).

Noel Maurer, The Power and the Money: The Mexican Financial System, 1876-1932. Stanford,
2001.

Pedro Riguzzi, “Mercados Regionales y Capitales en los Ferrocarriles de Propiedad Mexicana,

1870-1908” in Sandra Kuntz Ficker and Precilla Connolly, Ferrocarriles y Obras Publicas
(Mexico: Instituto Mora, 1999)

Richard Weiner, Race, Nation, and Market: Economic Culture in Porfirian Mexico. University
of Arizona Press, 2004.

Tony Morgan, “Proletarians, Politicos, and Patriarchs: The Use and Abuse of Cultural Customs
in the Early Industrialization of Mexico City, 1880-1910,” in Beezley, ed., Rituals of Rule.
Week 6 (Feb. 28): The modernization of culture and political discourse, 1880-1910

Common reading:

Edward Wright-Rios, Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism. Duke, 2010.

Additional reading:

Works on cultural change (often crosses 1910)

Edward Wright-Rios, Searching for Madre Matiana: Prophecy and Popular Culture in Modern
Mexico. University of New Mexico Press, 2014 (only a part is Porfirian).

Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo, Mexico at the World's Fairs: Crafting a Modern Nation. Berkeley,
1996.

Anne M. Martínez, Catholic Borderlands: Mapping Catholicism onto American Empire, 1905-
1935. U. Nebraska, 2014.

William E. French, A Peaceful and Working People: Manners, Morals, and Class Formation in
Northern Mexico. Albuquerque, 1996.

Robert M. Buffington, A Sentimental Education for the Working Man: The Mexico City Penny
Press, 1900-1910. Duke, 2015.

Deborah Toner, Alcohol and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Mexico. U. Nebraska, 2015.

Daniel Nugent, Spent Cartridges of Revolution: An Anthropological History of Namiquipa,

Chihuahua. University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Ana María Alonso, Thread of Blood: Colonialism, Revolution, and Gender on Mexico’s
Northern Frontier. University of Arizona Press, 1995.

Steven B. Bunker, Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Díaz. U. New
Mexico, 2012.

Paul Vanderwood, The Power of God Against the Guns of Government: Religious Upheaval in
Mexico at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century. Stanford, 1998.

Marie Eileen Francois, A Culture of Everyday Credit: Housekeeping, Pawnbroking, and

Governance in Mexico City, 1750-1920, University of Nebraska, 2006.

Pablo Piccato, The Tyranny of Opinion: Honor in the Construction of the Mexican Public
Sphere. Duke, 2010.
Paolo Riguzzi, “Mexico prospero: Las dimensionses de la imagen nacional en el porfiriato.”
Historias 20 (April-September 1980).

Matthew Esposito, Funerals, Festivals, and Cultural Politics in Porfirian Mexico. University of
New Mexico Press, 2010.

Mark Overmyer-Velazquez, Visions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition, and the
Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico. Duke, 2006.

Barbara Tenenbaum, “Streetwise History: The Paseo de la Reforma and the Porfirian State,
1876-1910,” in William H. Beezley et al, eds., Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance.

Susana Quintanilla, “Nosotros” La juventud del Ateneo de Mexico: de Pedro Henriez Urena y
Alfonso Reyes a Jose Vasconcelos y Martin Luis Guzman. Tusquets. 2008.

Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo, “1910 Mexico City: Space and Nation in the City of the Centenario,”
Journal of Latin American Studies 28:1 (1996).

James Garza, The Imagined Underworld: Sex, Crime, and Vice in Porfirian Mexico City
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press), 2009.

William Beezley, Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico. 1987.

Michael Matthews, The Civilizing Machine: A Cultural History of Mexican Railroads, 1876-
1910. University of Nebraska Press, 2014.

María de la Luz Parcero, “El liberalismo triunfante y el surgimiento de la historia nacional,”

Investigaciones contemporáneas sobre la historia de México: Memoria de la tercera reunión de
historiadores mexicanos y norteamericanos, 1969. University of Texas Press, 1971.

Works on modernization of policy, politics, and political discourse change (not precursorist)

Katherine Bliss, Compromised Positions: Prostitution, Public Health, and Gender Politics in
Revolutionary Mexico City. Penn State University Press, 2002.

Josefina Vazquez, Nacionalismo y educación en México. Colegio de México, 1970.

Mary Kay Vaughan, The State, Education, and Social Class in Mexico, 1889–1928 (Dekalb:
Northern Illinois Univ. Press, 1982).

Ann Shelby Blum, Domestic Economies: Family, Work, and Welfare in Mexico City, 1884-1943.
University of Nebraska Press, 2010.
Claudia Agostini, Monuments of Progress: Modernization and Public Health in Mexico City,
1876-1910. University Press of Colorado, 2003.

Charles Hale, Emilio Rabasa and the Survival of Porfirian Liberalism: The Man, His Career,
and His Ideas, 1856-1930. Stanford, 2008.

Cristina Rivera-Garza, "Dangerous Minds: Changing Psychiatric Views of the Mentally Ill in
Porfirian Mexico, 1876-1911," Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 56:1
(2001), 36-67.

Robert M. Buffington, Criminal and Citizen in Modern Mexico. Univ. Nebraska Press, 2000.

Robert Buffington, “Revolutionary Reform: The Mexican Revolution and the Discourse on
Prison Reform,” Mexican Studies/Estudios mexicanos 9 (1993)

Christina Bueno, “Forjando Patrimonio: The Making of Archaeological Patrimony in Porfirian

Mexico,” Hispanic American Historical Review 90 (2): 215-45

Christina Bueno, The Pursuit of Ruins: Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern
Mexico. U. New Mexico, 2016.

Andrew Grant Wood, Revolution in the Street: Women, Workers and Urban Protest in
Veracruz, 1870-1927. Latin American Silhouettes, 2001.

Michael Snodgrass, Deference and Defiance in Monterrey: Workers, Paternalism, and

Revolution in Mexico, 1890-1950. Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Susie S. Porter, Working Women in Mexico City: Public Discourses and Material Conditions,
1879-1931. U. Arizona Press, 2003

Patrick J. McNamara, Sons of the Sierra: Juárez, Díaz, and the People of Ixtlán, Oaxaca, 1855-
1920. UNC Press, 2007.

Pablo Piccato, City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900–1931. Duke, 2001.

Katherine Bliss, Compromised Positions: Prostitution, Public Health, and Gender Politics in
Revolutionary Mexico City. Penn State University Press, 2002.

Laura O'Dogherty Madrazo, "El ascenso de una jerarquia eclesial intransigente, 1890-1914," in
Historia de la Iglesia en el siglo XIX, ed.Manuel Ramos

Jorge Adame, El pensamiento politico y social de los catolicos mexicanos, 1867-1914. Colegio
de Mexico, 1981.

Manuel Ceballos Ramirez, El catolicismo social, un tercero en discordia: Rerum Novarum, la

"cuestion social" y la movilizcion de los catolicos mexicanos (1891-1911). Colegio de Mexico,
1991.

Manuel Ceballos Ramirez, La democracia cristiana en el Mexico liberal: un proyecto

alternativo (1867-1929). 1986.

Cecilia Adriana Bautista García, “Hacía la romanización de la iglesia mexicana a fines del siglo
XIX,” Historia Mexicana 55:1 (2005).

Victor Gabriel Muro, “La iglesia Católica ante los procesos sociopolíticos del siglo XX en
México,” in Alicia Mayer, ed. Mexico en tres momentos, 1810-1910-2010. UNAM, 2007.

María Luisa Aspe Armella, La formación social y política de los Católicos mexcianos. Instituto
Mexicano de Doctrina Social Cristiana, 2008.
Week 7 (Mar. 7): The Mexican Revolution

Common reading:

Claudio Lomnitz, The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magon, Zone, 2014.

Additional reading:

John Womack, Zapata and the Mexican Revolution New York, 1968.

Friedrich Katz, Pancho Villa

Alan Knight, The Mexican Revolution

Adolfo Gilly, La revolución interrumpida (Mexico: Ediciones Era, 1971).

John Womack, “The Mexican Economy during the Revolution, 1910-1920: Historiography and
Analysis,” Marxist Perspectives (Winter 1978).

John Lear, Workers, Neighbors, and Citizens: The Revolution in Mexico City. University of
Nebraska Press, 2001.

John M. Hart, Revolutionary Mexico: The Coming and Process of the Mexican Revolution.
Berkeley, 1987.

Friedrich Katz, The Secret War in Mexico: Europe, the United States and the Mexican
Revolution. University of Chicago Press, 1981.

Alan Knight, "The Mexican Revolution: Bourgeois? Nationalist? Or Just a 'Great Rebellion'?"
Bulletin of Latin American Studies 4 (1985).

Arturo Warman, “The Political Project of Zapatismo,” in Katz, ed., Riot, Rebellion, and
Revolution (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988).

Raymond Buve, “Peasant Movements, Caudillos, and Land Reform during the Revolution
(1910‐1917) in Tlaxcala, Mexico,” Beletín de Estudios Latino‐Americanos y del Caribe, V. 18
(1975).

Raymond Buve, “Neither Carranza nor Zapata: The Rise and Fall of a Peasant Movement that
Tried to Challenge Both, Tlaxcala, 1910‐1919,” in Friedrich Katz, ed., Riot, Rebellion, and
Revolution (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988).

Francisco Pineda Gómez, La irrupción zapatista, 1911 (Mexico City: Ediciones Era, 1997)

Felipe Ávila Espinosa, Los origines del zapatismo (Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 2001).
Frank Tannenbaum. Peace by Revolution. New York, 1933.

José C. Valadés, Historia general de la Revolución Mexicana (Mexico, 1963-65), 5 vols.

Helga Baitenmann, “Popular Participation in State Formation: Land Reform in Revolutionary

Mexico,” Journal of Latin American Studies 43: 1-31 (2011).

Historia de la revolución mexicana, 1910-1960. This is a 23-volume, multi-author series,

published over a period of five years from 1979 to 1984, sponsored by the Colegio de México. It
is divided into eight sub-periods, researched and written about by different scholars. Because it
was partly sponsored by the Mexican government (the project was launched in 1974 with the
assistance of President Luis Echeverría), there is an element of the “official” story in many of the
volumes. But serious scholars were the authors, so elements of revisionism creep in. The model
was Cosío Villegas’s Historia moderna de México, and indeed Cosío Villegas directed this
project in its early stages (he died in 1976, before any of the volumes was published), but it more
resembles the social and economic volumes of the Historia moderna than the influential,
analytical, and interpretive political volumes written by Cosío Villegas. Some of the volumes
are better than others. See the multi-author review in the Hispanic American Historical Review
64:4 (1984).

Period 1911-1914. Eduardo Blanquel v.1. La caida del porfiriato -- v.2. La república
democrática -- v.3. La república castrense. *These volumes have not yet been published and it
seems doubtful that they will be.

Period 1914- 1917. Berta Ulloa, V. 4. La revolucion escindida (1981) -- v.5 La encrucijada de
1915 (1979) -- v.6. La constitución de 1917 (1983).

Period 1917-1924. Alvaro Matute, v.7. Las dificultades del nuevo Estado (1995); Alvaro
Matute, v.8. La carrera del caudillo (1980) -- v.9. El caudillo en el poder *not yet published

Jorge Vera Estañol, La revolución mexicana: orígenes y resultados. Mexico, 1957.

Enrique Semo, Historia mexicana: economía y lucha de clases. Mexico, 1978.

Moisés González Navarro, "La ideologia de la revolucion mexicana," Historia Mexicana 10: 4
(April-June 1961).

Arnoldo Córdova, La ideología de la Revolución Mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1973).

Arnaldo Córdova, La formación del poder político en México. Mexico, 1972.

Adolfo Gilly, Arnaldo Córdova, Armando Bartra, Manuel Aguilar Mora, and Enrique Semo,
Interpretaciones de la revolución mexicana, 3rd ed. (Mexico, 1980).

Jeffrey Bortz, Revolution Within the Revolution: Cotton Textile Workers and the Mexican Labor
Regime, 1910-1923. Stanford University Press, 2008.
Hector Aguilar Camin, La revolución nomada: Sonora y la revolución mexicana (Mexico: Siglo
XXI, 1977).

David A. Brading, ed., Caudillo and Peasant in the Mexican Revolution (New York: Cambridge,
1980).

Frans J. Schryer, The Rancheros of Pisaflores: The History of a Peasant Bourgeoisie in

Twentieth-Century Mexico. Univ. of Toronto Press, 1980.

Gil Joseph, Revolution from Without: Yucatán, Mexico, and the United States, 1880-1924 (New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1982).

Ian Jacobs, Ranchero Revolt: The Mexican Revolution in Guerrero. Austin: University of
Texas Press, 1983.

Paul Garner, La revolución en la provincia: Soberanía estatal y caudillismo en las montañas de

Oaxaca (1910-1920). Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1988.

David LaFrance, The Mexican Revolution in Puebla, 1908-1913. Scholarly Resources, 1989.

Romana Falcón and Soledad García, La semilla en el surco: Adalberto Tejeda y el radicalismo
en Veracruz, 1880-1960. Colegio de Mexico, 1986.

Dudley Ankerson, Agrarian Warlord: Saturnino Cedillo and the Mexican Revolucion in San
Luis Potosí. Northern Illinois Press, 1984.

Carlos Martinez Assad, “Dos versiones de la Revolución Mexicana,” Nexos 167 (1990).

Ramon Ruiz, The Great Rebellion: Mexico, 1905-1924 (New York: Norton, 1980).

Mark Gilderhus, Diplomacy and Revolution: U.S. -Mexican Relations under Wilson and
Carranza (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1977).

Timothy Henderson, The Worm in the Wheat: Rosalie Evans and Agrarian Struggle in the
Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley of Mexico, 1906-1927. Duke, 1998.

Eliot Young, Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border. Duke, 2004. Lots of
stuff on masculinity as part of making as a revolutionary
Part III: Modernizations in the post-revolutionary period, 1920-1940: What difference did
the Revolution make?

Week 8 (Mar. 14): The modernization of the state and Catholic resistance to that project
in the 1920s and 1930s

Common reading:

Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniel Nugent, “Popular Culture and State Formation in
Revolutionary Mexico,” in Joseph and Nugent, eds., Everyday Forms of State
Formation in Mexico. Duke, 1994.

Alan Knight, "Cardenismo: Juggernaut or Jalopy?" Journal of Latin American Studies

26:1 (February, 1994).

Stephanie Mitchell, “Revolutionary Feminism, Revolutionary Politics: Suffrage under

Cardenismo,” The Americas 72:3 (July, 2015).

Ben Fallaw, Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico. Introduction,

Chapter 1, and Chapter 5.

Additional reading:

The post-revolutionary state

Christopher Boyer, Becoming Campesinos: Politics, Identity, and Agrarian Struggle in Post-
Revolutionary Michoacán. Stanford, 2003

Adolfo Gilly, El cardenismo, una utopía mexicana. 1994.

Nora Hamilton, The Limits of State Autonomy: Post-Revolutionary Mexico. Princeton, 1982.

Aurora Gómez- Galvarriato, Industry and Revolution: Social and Economic Change in the
Orizaba Valley, Mexico. Harvard, 2013.

Peter H. Smith, Labyrinths of Power: Political Recruitment in Twentieth-Century Mexico

(Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1979).

Thomas Benjamin and Mark Wasserman, eds., Provinces of the Revolution: Essays on Regional
Mexican History, 1910-1929. University of New Mexico Press, 1990.

Romana Falcón, Revolución y caciquismo: San Luis Potosí, 1910-1938. Colegio de Mexico,
1984.
Stern, Alexandra Minna, “Buildings, Boundaries, and Blood: Medicalization and Nation-
Building on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1910-1930,” HAHR 79:1 (1999).

Engracia Loyo, Gobiernos revolucionarios y educación popular en México, 1911–1928 (Mexico

City: El Colegio de México, 1999)

Arnaldo Córdova, La revolución en crisis: La aventura del Maximato (Mexico City: Cal y
Arena, 1995).

Guillermo Palacios, La pluma y el arado: Los intelectuales pedagogos y la construcción

sociocultural del “problema campesino” en México, 1932–1934 (Mexico City: El Colegio de
México, 1999)

Barry Carr, El movimiento obrero y la política en México, 1910-1929. SEP, 1976.

John M. Hart, Anarchism and the Working Class in Mexico, 1860-1931. Austin, 1978.

Jeffrey Bortz, Revolution within the Revolution: Cotton Textile Workers and the Mexican Labor
Regime, 1910-1923. Stanford, 2008.

Ana Maria Serna, Manuel Pelaez y la vida rural en la Faja de Oro. Petroleo, revolucion y
sociedad en el norte de Veracruz, 1910-1928. Instituto Mora. 2008.

Historia de la revolución mexicana.

Period 1924- 1928. Enrique Krauze, v.10. La reconstrucción económica (1977);

Jean Meyer, v.11. Estado y sociedad con Calles (1977)

Period 1928-1934. Lorenzo Meyer, Rafael Segovia, and Alejandra Lajous, Vol. 12. Los
inicios de la institucionalización (1980); Lorenzo Meyer, Vol. 13. El conflicto social y
los gobiernos del maximato (1981).

Christopher Boyer, “Social Landscaping in the Forests of Mexico: An Environmental

Interpretation of Cardenismo, 1934-1940,” Hispanic American Historical Review 92:1 (February
2012), 73-106.

Arnoldo Córdova, La política de masas del Cardenismo, (Mexico City: Era, 1974).

Arturo Anguiano, El estado y la política obrera del cardenismo, (México, Era, 1975).

Alan Knight, "Revolutionary Project, Recalcitrant People," in The Revolutionary Process in

Mexico, ed. Jaime E. Rodríguez O. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press,
1990).
Daniel Nugent, Spent Cartridges of Revolution: An Anthropological History of Namiquipa,
Chihuahua. University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Stephen Haber, et. al., The Politics of Property Rights: Political Instability, Credible
Commitments, and Economic Growth in Mexico, 1876‐ 1929 (New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2003)

James Wilkie, Mexican Revolution: Federal Expenditure and Social Change Since 1910
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966).

Barry Carr, Marxism and Communism in Twentieth-Century Mexico. University of Nebraska

Press, 1992.

John J. Dwyer, The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in
Postrevolutionary Mexico. Duke, 2008.

John J. Dwyer, “Diplomatic Weapons of the Weak: Mexican Policymaking during the U.-S.
Mexican Agrarian Dispute, 1934-1941.” Diplomatic History 26:3 (2002).

Friedrich E. Schuler, Mexico Between Hitler and Roosevelt: Mexican Foreign Relations in the
Age of Lázaro Cárdenas, 1834-1940, Univ. New Mexico Press, 1998.

Elisa Servín, "Algunas ramas de un árbol frondoso: el cardenismo a mediados del siglo XX,"
Historias, no. 69 (Jan.-Apr. 2008),

Historia de la revolución mexicana.

Period 1934-1940. Luis González y González, Vol. 14: Los artífices del cardenismo
(1979); Luis González y González, Vol. 15. Los días del presidente Cárdenas (1981);
Alicia Hernández Chávez, Vol. 16: La mecánica cardenista (1979); Victoria Lerner, Vol.
17, La educación socialista (1979).

Socialist education

Mary Kay Vaughan, Cultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers, Peasants, and Schools, 1930-40.
University of Arizona Press, 1997.

Ben Fallaw, Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico. Duke, 2013.

Elsie Rockwell, Hacer Escuela, Hacer Estado: La Educacion Posrevolucionaria Vista Desde
Tlaxcala. Colegio de Michoacán, 2007.

David L. Raby, Educación y revolución social en México (1921-1940). Mexico, 1974.

Carlos Martínez Assad, ed., Los lunes rojo. Mexico, 1986. On rationalist education in post-
revolutionary Mexico.

Engracia Loyo, "Popular Reactions to the Educational Reforms of Cardenismo," in William

Beezley et al, eds., Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance. 1994.

Marjorie Becker, "Black and White and Color: Cardenismo and the Search for a Campesino
Ideology," Comparative Studies in Society and History 29:3 (July 1987).

David Lorey, The University System and Economic Development in Mexico since 1929.
Stanford, 1993.

Land reform, indigenous communities, and ejido communities

Paul Friedrich, The Princes of Naranja: An Essay in Anthrohistorical Method. University of

Texas Press, 1986.

John Gledhill, Casi Nada: A Study of Agrarian Reform in the Homeland of Cardenismo. Austin,
1988.

Ben Fallaw, Cárdenas Compromised: The Failure of Reform in Postrevolutionary Yucatán.

Duke University Press, 2001.

Heather Fowler-Salamini, Agrarian Radicalism in Veracruz, 1920-1938. University of Nebraska

Press, 1978.

Fernando Benitez, Lázaro Cárdenas y la revolución mexicana, 1977 (3 volúmenes: 1. El

porfirismo; 2. El caudillismo; 3. El cardenismo).

Arturo Warman, El campo mexicano en el siglo XX (Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica,
2001)—an essential synthesis.

Paul Friedrich, The Princes of Naranja (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986).

Arturo Warman, We come to object: The Peasants of Morelos and the National State (Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980).

Guillermo de la Peña, A Legacy of Promises: Agriculture, Politics, and Ritual in the Morelos
Highlands of Mexico (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982).

Mark Wasserman, Persistant Oligarchs: Elites and Politics in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1910-1940.
Duke, 1993.

Aaron Bobrow-Strain, Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas. Duke,
2007.
José Alfredo Castellanos Suárez, Empeño por una expectative agrarian: Esperiencia ejudal en el
municipio de Acolman, 1915‐1940 (Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de la
Revolución Mexicana, 1998).

Laura Valladares de la Cruz, Cuando el agua se esfumó (Mexico City: UNAM, 2003).

Pablo Castro Domínguez, Chayotes, burros y machetes (Zinacatepec: El Colegio Mexiquense,

2003).

Heather Fowler-Salamini, “Revolutionary Caudillos in the 1920s: Francisco Múgica and

Adalberto Tejeda,” in David Brading, ed., Caudillo and Peasant in the Mexican Revolution.
Cambridge, 1980.

Ann L. Craig, The First Agraristas: An Oral History of a Mexican Reform Movement. Berkeley,
1983.

Oil expropriation

Lorenzo Meyer, México y los Estados Unidos en el conflicto petrolero (Mexico, 1968). In
English as Mexico and the United States in the Oil Controversy (Austin: University of Texas
Press, 1972).

Myrna Santiago, The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-
1938. Cambridge, 2006.

Gustavo Corona, Lázaro Cárdenas y la expropiación de la industria petrolera en México, 2d ed.

(Morelia: Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, 1996).

Jonathan C. Brown and Alan Knight, eds., The Mexican Petroleum Industry in the Twentieth
Century, (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992).

Modernizing Gender Relations

Jocelyn Olcott, Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico. Duke, 2005

Mary Kay Vaughan, “Modernizing Patriarchy: State Policies, Rural Households, and Women in
Mexico, 1930-1940,” in Elizabeth Dore and Maxine Molyneux, eds., Hidden Histories of Gender
and the State in Latin America. Duke, 2000.

Nichole Sanders, “Improving Mothers: Poverty, the Family, and ‘Modern’ Social Assistance in
Mexico, 1937-1950,” in eds. Patience Schell and Stephanie Mitchell The Women’s Revolution:
Women and Womanhood in Mexico, 1910-1953, Rowman and Littlefield, 2006.
Nichole Sanders, Gender and Welfare in Mexico: The Consolidation of a Postrevolutionary
State. Penn State, 2011.

Jocelyn Olcott, Mary Kay Vaughan, and Gabriela Cano, eds., Sex in Revolution: Gender,
Politics and Power in Modern Mexico. Articles on state-building and gender:

María Teresa Fernández Aceves, “The Struggle between the Metate and the Molinos de
Nixtamal in Guadalajara, 1920-1940.”

Heather Fowler-Salamini, “Gender, Work, Trade Unionism, and Working-Class

Women’s culture in Post-Revolutionary Veracruz.”

Susan M. Gauss, “Working-Class Masculinity and the Rationalized Sex: Gender and
Industrial Modernization in the Textile Industry in Postrevolutionary Puebla.”

Kristina A. Boylan, “Gendering the Faith and Altering the Nation: Mexican Catholic
Women’s Activism, 1917-1940.”

Jocelyn Olcott, “The Center Cannot Hold: Women on Mexico’s Popular Front.”

Lynn Stephen, “Rural Women’s Grassroots Activism, 1980-2000: Reframing the

Nation from Below”

De-Christianization and the Cristero Rebellion

Julia G. Young, Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles and Refugees of the Cristero War. Oxford,
2015.

Special issue of The Americas on Personal Enemies of God: Anticlericals and Anticlericalism in
Revolutionary Mexico, 1915-1940:

Adrian A. Bantjes, “Mexican Revolutionary Anticlericalism: Concepts and Typologies”

Ben Fallow, “Varieties of Mexican Revolutionary Anticlericalism: Radicalism,

Iconoclasm, and Otherwise, 1914–1935.”

Matthew Butler, “Sotanas Rojinegras: Catholic Anticlericalism and Mexico’s

Revolutionary Schism.”

Robert Curly, “Anticlericalism and Public Space in Revolutionary Jalisco,” The

Americas 65:4 (2009).

Benjamin Smith, “Anticlericalism, Politics, and Freemasonry in Mexico, 1920-1940.”

Adrian A. Bantjes, “Idolatry and Iconoclasm in Post-Revolutionary Mexico: The
DeChristianization Campaigns, 1929-40,” Mexican Studies/Estudios mexicanos 13:1 (1997).

Adrian Bantjes, As if Jesus Walked on Earth: Cardenismo, Sonora, and the Mexican Revolution.
Scholarly Resources, 2000.

Jean Meyer, La cristiada. 3 vols. Mexico: Siglo veintiuno, 1972. Abridged English version is
very well done: The Cristero Rebellion: The Mexican People between Church and State, 1926-
1929. Cambridge, 1976.

Luis González, Pueblo en vilo. Also in English as San José de Gracia.

Jennie Purnell, Popular Movements and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico: The
Agraristas and Cristeros of Michoacán. Duke University Press, 1999.

Matthew Butler, Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico’s Cristero Rebellion:
Michoacán, 1927-29. Oxford, 2004.

Matthew Butler, ed., Faith and Impiety in Revolutionary Mexico. Palgrave McMillan, 2007.

David C. Bailey, Viva Cristo Rey! The Cristero Rebellion and the Church-State Conflict in
Mexico. Austin, 1974.

Marjorie Becker, Setting the Virgin on Fire: Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán Peasants, and the
Redemption of the Mexican Revolution. Berkeley, 1995.

A. Olivera Sedano, Aspectos del conflicto religioso de 1926 a 1929: sus antecedentes y
consecuencia (Mexico City: INAH, 1966).

James H. Wilkie, “The Meaning of the Cristero War Against the Mexican Revolution,” in
Journal of Church and State 8:2 (1966).

James W. Wilkie, “Statistical Indicators of the Impact of National Revolution on the Catholic
Church in Mexico,” Journal of Church and State 12:1 (1970).

Matthew Butler, "The 'Liberal' Cristero: Ladislao Molina and the Cristero Rebellion in
Michoacán, 1927-29," Journal of Latin American Studies 31:3 (October, 1999).

Christopher R. Boyer, "Old Loves, New Loyalties: Agrarismo in Michoacán, 1920-1928,"

Hispanic American Historical Review 78 (1998).

Roberto Blancarte, ed., El pensamiento social de los Católicos mexicanos. Fondo de Cultura,
1996.
Week 9 (Mar. 21): Culture and nation in 1920s and 1930s

Common reading:

John Lear, Picturing the Proletariat: Artists and Labor in Revolutionary Mexico,
1908-1940. U. Texas, 2017.

Mary Kay Vaughan and Stephen Lewis, eds., The Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and
Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940. Duke, 2006. The following articles:

Katherine E. Bliss, “For the Health of the Nation: Gender and the Cultural
Politics of Social Hygiene in Revolutionary Mexico.”

Rick A. López, “The Noche Mexicana and the Exhibition of Popular Arts: Two
Ways of Exalting Indianness,”

Mary Kay Vaughan, “Nationalizing the Countryside: Schools and Rural

Communities in the 1930s”

Wendy Waters, “Remapping Identities: Road Construction and Nation Building

in Postrevolutionary Mexico”

Joy Elizabeth Hayes, “National Imaginings on the Air: Radio in Mexico, 1920-
1950”

Joanne Herschfield, “Screening the Nation”

Classics:

José Vasconcelos, La raza cósmica. 1925.

Manuel Gamio, Forjando patria. 1916.

Additional reading:

Nationalism and Citizenship

Paul Gillingham, Cuauhtemoc’s Bones: Forging National Identity in Modern Mexico. New
Mexico, 2011.

Elena Jackson Albarrán, Seen and Heard in Mexico: Children and Revolutionary Cultural
Nationalism. U. Nebraska, 2015.
Alan Knight, “Racism, Revolution, and Indigenismo: Mexico, 1910-1940,” in The Idea of Race
in Latin America, 1870-1940

Alexander Dawson, “From Models for the Nation to Model Citizens: Indigenismo and the
“Revindication” of the Mexican Indian, 1920-1940,” 30 Journal of Latin American Studies
(1998)

Alexander Dawson, Indian and Nation in Revolutionary Mexico (Tucson: Univ. of Arizona
Press, 2003). Contributions of anthropologists and other social scientists to the ideological
foundations of revolutionary state hegemony.

Rick Lopez, Crafting Mexico: Intellectuals, Artisans, and the State After the Revolution
(Durham: Duke University Press, 2010).

Ilene O’Malley, The Myth of the Revolution: Hero cults and the Institutionalization of the
Mexican State, 1920-1940. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.

Mary Kay Vaughan and Stephen Lewis, eds., The Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and Cultural
Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940. Duke, 2006. These articles:

Maria Teresa Fernández Aceves, “Guadalajaran Women and the Construction of

National Identity.”

Michael Snodgrass, “’We are all Mexicans Here”: Workers, Patriotism, and Union
Struggles in Monterrey.”

Claudio Lomnitz, “What Was Mexico’s Cultural Revolution?”

Culture and cultural renaissance

Mauricio Tenorio Trillo, “Stereophonic Scientific Modernisms: Social Science between Mexico
and the United States, 1880s–1930s,” Journal of American History 86, 3 (1999): 1156–87.

James Krippner, “Traces, Images and Fictions: Paul Strand in Mexico, 1932-34,” The Americas
63.3 (2007) 359-383

Helen Delpar, The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican: Cultural Relations between the United
States and Mexico, 1920-1935. Tuscaloosa: Unviersity of Alabama Press, 1992.

Ageeth Sluis, Deco Body, Deco Bity: Female Spectacle and Modernity in Mexico City, 1900-
1939. U. Nebraska, 2016.

Joanne Herschfield, Imagining la Chica Moderna: Women, Nation, and Visual Culture in
Mexico, 1917-1936. Duke.
Jocelyn Olcott, Mary Kay Vaughan, and Gabriela Cano, eds., Sex in Revolution: Gender,
Politics and Power in Modern Mexico. Articles on gender and cultural modernization:

Carlos Monsivais, “When Gender Can’t Be Seen amid the Symbols: Women and the
Mexican Revolution.”

Mary Kay Vaughan, “Pancho Willva, the Daughters of Mary, and the Modern Woman:
Gender in the Long Mexican Revolution.”

Gabriela Cano, “Unconcealable Realities of Desire: Ameio Robles’s (Transgender)

Masculinity in the Mexican Revolution.”

Anne Rubenstein, “The War on Las Pelonas: Modern Women and their Enemies,
mexico City, 1924.”

Julia Tuñón, “Femininity, Indigenismo, and Nation: Film Representation by Emilio “El
Indio” Fernández.”

Stephanie Smith, “If Love Enslaves…Love be Damned!”: Divorce and Revolutionary

State Formation in Yucatan.”

Patience A. Schell, “Gender, Class, and Anxiety at the Gabriela Mistral Vocational
School, Revolutionary Mexico City.”

Mary Kay Vaughan and Stephen Lewis, eds., The Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and Cultural
Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940. Duke, 2006.

Desmond Rochfort, “The Sickle, the Serpent, and the Soil: History, Revolution,
Nationhood, and modernity in the Murals of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and
David Alfaro Siqueiros.”

“Painting in the Shadow of the Big Three.” (Separate short articles on Frida Kahlo,
Mariz Izquierdo, and Marion and Grace Greenwood.)

Marco Velázquez and Mary Kay Vaughan, “Mestizaje and Musical Nationalism in
Mexico.”
 Part IV: Modernizations in the post-1940 period

Week 10 (Apr. 4): Cultural, political, and economic modernization, 1940-1960s

Common reading:

Gilbert Joseph, Anne Rubenstein, and Eric Zolov, eds., Fragments of a Golden Age: The
politics of culture in post-1940 Mexico. Intro by editors.

Susan Gauss, Made in Mexico: Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican
Industrialism, 1920s to 1940s (University Park: Penn State Press, 2010). Despite the title
most of this book is set in the 1940s.

Paul Gillingham and Benjamin Smith, eds., Dictablanda: Politics, Work and Culture in
Mexico, 1938-1968. Duke, 2014. (We will divide these up.)

Paul Gillingham and Benjamin Smith, “The Paradoxes of Revolution”

Thomas Rath, “Camouflaging the State: The Army and the Limits of Hegemony in
PRIista Mexico, 1940-1960.”

Rogelio Hernández Rodríguez, “Strongmen and State Weakness.”

Wil G. Pansters, “Tropical Passion in the Desert: Gonzalo N. Santos and Local
Elections in Northern San Luis Potosí, 1943-1958.”

Paul Gillingham, “We Don’t Have Arms, but We Do Have Balls”: Fraud, Violence,
and Popular Agency in Elections.”

Michael Snodgrass, “The Golden Age of Charrismo: Workers, Braceros, and the
Political Machinery of Postrevolutionary Mexico.

Christopher R. Boyer, “Community, Crony Capitalism, and Fortress Conservation in

Mexican Forests.”

María Teresa Fernández Aceves, “Advocate or Cacica? Guadalupe Urzúa Flores:

Modernizer and Peasant Political Leader in Jalisco.”

Benjamin T. Smith, “Building a State on the Cheap: Taxation, Social Movements,

and Politics.”

Guillermo de la Peña, “The End of Revolutionary Anthropology? Notes on

Indigenismo”

Andrew Paxman, “Cooling to Cinema and Warming to Television: State Mass

Media Policy, 1940-1964.”
 Jeffrey W. Rubin, “Contextualizing the Regime: What 1938-1968 Tells Us about
Mexico, Power, and Latin America’s Twentieth Century.”

Additional reading:

State building

Kevin Middlebrook, The Paradox of Revolution: Labor, the State, and Authoritarianism in
Mexico (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).

Michelle Dion, “The Political Origins of Social Security in Mexico during the Cárdenas and
Avila Camacho Administrations,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 21:1 (Winter 2005), pp.
59– 95.

Historia de la revolución mexicana

Period 1940-52. Luis Medina, Vol. 18: Del cardenismo al avilacamachismo; Blanca
Torres Ramírez, Vol. 19. México en la segunda guerra mundial (1979); Luis Medina,
Vol. 20. Civilismo y modernización del autoritarismo (1982); Vol. 21, Hacia la utopía
industrial.

Period 1952-1960. Olga Pellicer de Brody and José Luis Reyna, Vol. 22. El
afianzamiento de la estabilidad política (1980); Olga Pellicer de Brody and Esteban L.
Mancilla, Vol. 23, El entendimiento con los Estados Unidos y la gestación del desarrollo
estabilizador (1981).

Mary Coffey, How a Revolutionary Art Became Official Culture: Murals, Museums, and the
Mexican State. Duke, 2012.

Ryan M. Alexander, Sons of the Mexican Revolution: Miguel Alemán and His Generation. U.
New Mexico, 2016.

Daniel Newcomer, Reconciling Modernity: Urban State Formation in 1940s León, Mexico.
Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press, 2004.

Rafael Loyola, ed., Entre la guerra y la estabilidad política: México en los 40 (Mexico City:
Grijalbo, 1990).

Kandell, Jonathan. La Capital: The Biography of Mexico City. Random House, 1988.

Luis Medina, Hacia un nuevo estado (Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1995).

The Mexican miracle and the role of experts in economic and social modernization
Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Marriage of Convenience: Rockefeller International Health and
Revolutionary Mexico. University of Rochester Press, 2006.

Aurora Gómez‐Galvariato, Industry and Revolution, Social and Economic Change in the
Orizaba Valley (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013).

Gabriela Soto Laveaga, “Bringing the Revolution to Medical Schools: Social Service and a
Rural Health Emphasis in 1930s Mexico,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 29: 2(Summer
2013). Includes brief synoposis of the film “The Forgotten Village” (Steinbeck, 1941).

Christopher R. Boyer, Political Landscapes: Forests, Conservation, and Community in Mexico.

Duke, 2015.

Dina Berger and Andrew Grant Wood, eds., Holiday in Mexico: Critical Reflections on Tourism
and Tourist Encounters. Duke, 2010.

Casey Walsh, Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton Along the
Mexico-Texas Border. Texas A&M. 2008.

Cynthia Hewitt, Modernizing Mexican Agriculture: Socioeconomic Implications of Technical

Change (Geneva: UN Research Institute for Social Development, 1976).

Angus Wright, The Death of Ramón González: The Modern Agricultural Dilemma (Austin:
University of Texas Press, 1990).

Enrique Ochoa, Feeding Mexico: The Political Uses of Food since 1910. Rowman and
Littlefield, 2001.

Mercedes Blanco, Empleo público en la administración central mexicana: Evolución y

tendencias (Mexico City: CIESAS, 1995)

Joseph Cotter, Troubled Harvest: Agronomy and Revolution in Mexico, 1880-2002 (Westport,
CT: Praeger, 2003).

Stephen E. Lewis, “Mexico’s National Indigenist Institute and the Negotiation of Applied
Anthropology in Highland Chiapas, 1951-1954,” Ethnohistory 55:4 (Fall, 2008).

Sara Babb, Managing Mexico: Economists from Nationalism to Neoliberalism (Princeton and
Oxfrod, Princeton University Press, 2001).

Lane Simonian, Defending the Land of the Jaguar: A History of Conservation in Mexico
(Austin, 1995).

Emily Wakild, Revolutionary Parks: Conservation, Social Justice, and Mexico’s National
Parks, 1910-1940. Tucson, 2011.
Mikael Wolfe, "The Historical Dynamics of Mexico's Groundwater Crisis in La Laguna:
Knowledge, Resources, and Profit, 1930s-1960s." Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 29:1,
2013, 3-35.

Michael Erwin, “The 1930 Agrarian Census in Mexico: Agronomists, Middle Politics, and the
Negotiation of Nationalism,” HAHR 87:3 (August 2007).

Alex Saragoza, “The Selling of Mexico: Tourism and the State, 1929-1952,” in Gilbert Joseph et
al, Fragments of a Golden Age.

Jeffrey M. Pilcher, Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity. Scholarly Resources, 2001.

Jeffrey M. Pilcher, !Que vivan los tamales!: Food and the Making of Mexican Identity. Univ. of
New Mexico Press, 1998.

Quetzal E. Castañeda, “The Aura of Ruins,” in Gilbert Joseph et al, Fragments of a Golden Age.

Transnational influences

Monica A. Rankin, ¡México, la patria! Propaganda and Production during World War II. U.
Nebraska, 2010.

Patrick Iber, Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America. Harvard,
2015.

Julio Moreno, Yankee Don’t Go Home: Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and
the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920-1950. UNC Press, 2003.

Seth Fein, “Everyday Forms of Transnational Collaboration: U.S. Film Propaganda in Cold War
Mexico,” in Gilbert M. Joseph, Catherine LeGrand, and Ricardo Salvatore, eds., Close
Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations. Duke,
1998.

Seth Fein, “Myths of Cultural Imperialism and Nationalism in Golden Age Mexican Cinema,” in
Gilbert Joseph et al, Fragments of a Golden Age.

Lisa Pinley Covert, San Miguel de Allende: Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World
Heritage Site. U. Nebraska, 2017. (Probably not available till June.)

Andrew Paxman, Jenkins of Mexico: How a Southern Farm Boy Became a Mexican Magnate.
Oxford, 2017 (Probably not availble till May.)

Carlos Marichal, México y las conferencias panamericanas, 1889-1938: Antecedentes de la

globalización
Julia Schiavone Camacho, Chinese Mexicans: Transpacific Migration and the Search for a
Homeland, 1910- 1960 (University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp, So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico: Middle Eastern Immigrants in
Modern Mexico. U. Texas Press, 2007.

Daniela Spenser, The Impossible Triangle: Mexico, Soviet Russia, and the United States in the
1920s. Duke, 1999.

Steven J. Bachelor, “Toiling for the ‘New Invaders’: Autoworkers, Transnational Corporations,
and Working Class Culture in Mexico City, 1955-1968,” in Gilbert M. Joseph, Anne Rubenstein,
Eric Zolov, eds., Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940.
Duke, 2001.
Week 11 (Apr. 11): Challenges to the PRI, 1940-1960s

Common reading:

Gladys McCormick, The Logic of Compromise in Mexico: How the Countryside Was
Key to the Emergence of Authoritarianism. UNC, 2016.

Paul Gillingham, “Maximino’s Bulls: Popular Protest after the Mexican Reovlution,
1940-1952,” Past & Present 206 (February, 2010).

Additional reading:

Post-1940 resistance

Tanalis Padilla, Rural Resistance in the Land of Zapata: The Jaramillista Movement and the
Myth of the Pax-Priísta, 1940–1962. Duke, 2008.

Dolores Trevizo, Rural Protest and the Making of Democracy in Mexico, 1968-2000 (University
Park: Penn State University Press, 2012).

Alexander Aviña, Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican
Countryside. Oxford, 2014.

Robert F. Alegre, Railroad Radicals in Cold War Mexico: Gender, Class, and Memory, U.
Nebraska, 2014.

Alberto Ulloa Bornemann, Surviving Mexico's Dirty War: A Political Prisoner's Memoir.
Temple University Press, 2007.

Aurora Loyo Brambila, El movimiento magisterial de 1958 en Mexico. 1979.

Antonio Alonso, El movimiento ferrocarrilero en Mexico, 1958-1959. 1972.

Mario Gill, Los ferrocarrileros. 1971.

Daniel Nugent, ed. Rural Revolt in Mexico: U.S. Intervention and the Domain of Subaltern
Politics. Duke, 1998. Has essays from 1840s through 1994. Duke, 1998

Anne Rubenstein, Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation: A Political
History of Comic Books in Mexico. Duke, 1998.

Victor M. Macías-González and Anne Rubenstein, Masculinity and Sexuality in Modern Mexico.
U. New Mexico, 2012.
Eric Zolov, "¡Cuba sí, yanquis no! The Sacking of the Instituto Cultural México-Norteamericnao
in Morelia, Michoacán, 1961," in In from the Cold: Latin America's New Encounter with the
Cold War, ed. Gil Joseph and Daniela Spenser (Durnam, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008).

The 1968 student movement

Jaime Pensado, Rebel Mexico: Student Unrest and Authoritarian Political Culture During the
Long Sixties. Stanford, 2013.

Eric Zolov, Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1999).

Mary Kay Vaughan, Portrait of a Young Painter: Pepe Zúñiga and Mexico City’s Rebel
Generation. Duke, 2015.

Elaine Carey, Plaza of Sacrifices: Gender, Power, and Terror in 1968 Mexico. University of
New Mexico Press, 2005.

Elena Poniatowska, La noche de Tlatelolco: testimonios de historia oral. Ediciones Era, 1971.
Also in English as Massare in Mexico.

Octavio Paz, Posdata. Siglo XXI, 1970. In English as The Other Mexico: Critique of the
Pyramid. 1972.

Herbert Braun, "Protests of Engagement: Dignity, False Love and Self-Love in Mexico during
1968," Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 19 # 1 (July 1997), pp. 511-549.
Eric Zolov, “Showcasing the 'Land of Tomorrow': Mexico and the 1968 Olympics,”
The Americas, 61:2 (October 2004), pp. 159-188

Sergio Aguayo Quezada, 1968: Los archivos de la violencia (Mexico City: Editorial
Grijalbo/Reforma, 1998

Raul Alvarez Garin, La estrela de Tlatelolco: Una reconstrución histórica del movimiento
estudiantil del 68 (Mexico City: Grijalbo, 1998)

Julio Scherer Garcia & Carlos Monsivaiis, Parte de Guerra: Tlatelolco 1968 (Mexico City:
Nuevo Siglo/Aguilar, 1999)

Carlos Montemayor, Rehacer la historia: Análisis de los nuevos documentos del 2 de octubre de
1968 en Tlatelolco (Mexico City: Planeta, 2000).

Ariel Rodriguez Kuri, "El otro 68: Politica y estilo en la organización de los juegos olimpicos de
la ciudad de Mexico," Relaciones 19 (Fall 1998), pp. 109-29.

Jorge Volpi, La imaginación y el poder: Una historia intelectual de 1968 (Mexico: Era, 1998).
Lessie Jo Frazier and Deborah Cohen, "Defining the Space of Mexico '68: Heroic Masculinity in
the Prison and 'Women' in the Streets," Hispanic American Historical Review 83:4 (November
2003), pp. 617-60

Vania Markarian, "El movimiento estudiantil mexicano de 1968: Treinta años de debates
públicos," Anuario de Espacios Urbanos (2001), pp. 239-64.

Eric Zolov, "Toward an Analytical Framework for Assessing the Impact of the 1968 Student
Movement on U.S.-Mexican Relations, " Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 9:2
(December 2003), pp. 41-68.
Week 12 (Apr. 18): The Crisis of the State after Tlatelolco

Common reading:

Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and
the Making of the Pill. Duke, 2009.

Additional reading:

Jeffrey Rubin, Decentering the Regime: Ethnicity, Radicalism, and Democracy in Juchitán,
Mexico. Duke, 1997.

Joseph U. Lenti, Redeeming the Revolution: The State and Organized Labor in Post-Tlatelolco
Mexico. U. Nebraska, 2017 (Probably not available until August.)

Omar Hernández and Emile McAnaney, “Cultural Industries in the Free Trade Age: A Look at
Mexican Television,” in Gilbert Joseph et al, Fragments of a Golden Age.

Joe Foweracker, Popular Mobilization in Mexico: The Teachers’ Movement 1977-87

(Cambridge, 2002).

Heather Levi, “”Masked Media: The Adventures of Lucha Libre on the Small Screen,” in
Gilbert Joseph et al, Fragments of a Golden Age.

Omar Hernández and Emile McAnaney, “Cultural Industries in the Free Trade Age: A Look at
Mexican Television,” in Gilbert Joseph et al, Fragments of a Golden Age.

John Mason Hart, Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico since the Civil War. U.C.
Press, 2002.

Rachel Adams, “Hipsters and Jipitecas: Literary Countercultures on Both Sides of the Border”,
American Literary History, Vol. 16 (10, 2004, pp. 58-84.

Vicente M. Díaz, “Pious Sites: Chamorro Culture Between Spanish Catholicism and American
Liberal Individualism,” in Amy Kaplan and Donald Pease, eds., Cultures of United States
Imperialism (Duke University Press, 1993).

Gabriela Soto Laveaga, "'Let's Become Fewer': Soap Operas, The Pill and Population
Campaigns, 1976- 1986" Sexuality Research and Social Policy Journal, 2007. Vol 4, no. 3,
pp.19-33.

Gabriela Soto Laveaga, "Uncommon Trajectories: Steroid Hormones, Mexican Peasants and the
Search for a Wild Yam Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Science
Vol. 36, no. 4, December, pp. 743-760.
Wil Pansters, ed., Violence, Coercion and State-Making in Twentieth-Century Mexico. Stanford,
2012. Articles:

Will G. Pansters, “Zones of State-Making: Violence, Coercion, and Hegemony in

Twentieth-Century Mexico.”

David A. Shirk, “States, Borders, and Violence: lessons from the U.S.-Mexican
Experience.”

Diane E. Davis, “Policing and Regime Transition: From Postauthoriarianism to

Populism to Neoliberalism.”

Paul Gillingham, “Who Killed Crispín Aguilar” Violence and Order in the
Postrevolutioanry Countryside.”

Alan Knight, “Narco-Violence and the State in Modern Mexico.”

Mónica Serrano, “States of Violence: State-Crime Relations in Mexico.”

José Carlos G. Aguilar, “Policing New Illegalities: Piracy, Raids, and Madrinas.”

Marcos Aguila and Jeffrey Bortz, “The Rise of Gangsterism and Charrismo: Labor
Violence and the Postrevolutionary Mexican State.”

Kathy Powell, “Political Practice, Everyday Political Violence, and Electoral Processes
During the Neoliberal Period in Mexico.”

John Gledhill, “Violence and Reconstitution in Mexican Indigenous Communities.”

Kees Koonings, “New Violence, Insecurity, and the State: Comparative Reflections on
Latin America and Mexico.”
Week 13 (Apr. 25). The crisis of Mexico’s self image: financial collapse and the Zapatista
rebellion

Common reading:

Louise Walker, Waking from the Dream: Mexico’s Middle Classes after 1968.
Stanford, 2013.

Thomas Benjamin, “A Time of Reconquest: History, the Maya Revival, and the
Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas,” American Historical Review April 2000.

Additional reading:

Sandra C. Mendiola García, Street Democracy: Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late
Twentieth-Century Mexico. U. Nebraska. (Probably available in late March.)

Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude. 1950.

Nestor García Canclini, Transforming Modernity: Popular Culture in Mexico. University of

Texas Press, 1993.

Claudio Lomnitz, Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism. Univ. of

Minnesota Press, 2001.

Claudio Lomnitz, Exits from the Labyrinth: Culture and Ideology in the Mexican National
Space. Berkeley, 1992.

Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, Mexico Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilization. Austin, 1996.

Roger Bartra, La jaula de la melancolia. 1987. Also in English as The Cage of Melancholy:
Identity and Metamorphosis in the Mexican Character. 1992.

The Zapatista challenge to the State

George Collier, Basta!: Land And The Zapatista Rebellion In Chiapas. Try to get the latest
edition.

Samuel Brunk, The Posthumous Career of Emiliano Zapata: Myth, Memory and Mexico’s
Twentieth Century. Texas, 2010.

Shannon Speed, Rights in Rebellion: Indigenous Struggle and Human Rights in Chiapas.
Stanford, 2007.

Jose Rabasa, Without History: Subaltern Studies, the Zapatista Insurgency, and the Specter of
History. Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.

Alex Khasnabish, Zapatistas: Rebellion from the Grassroots to the Global. Zed, 2010.

Jan Rus et al, Mayan Lives, Mayan Utopias: The Indigenous Peoples of Chiapas and the
Zapatista Rebellion. Rowman and Littlefield, 2013.

Nicholas P. Higgins, Understanding the Chiapas Rebellion: Modernist Visions and the Invisible
Indian

Thomas Benjamin, A Rich Land, A Poor Land: Politics and Society in Modern Chiapas. 1996.

Aaron Bobrow-Strain, Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas. Duke,
2007.

Christian Gros, “Evangelical Protestantism and Indigenous Populations,” Bulletin of Latin

American Research 18:2 (1999).

June Nash, “The Reassertion of Indigenous Identity: Mayan Responses to State Intervention in
Chiapas,” Latin American Research Review, 1995.