Setting the Virgin on Fire: Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán Peasants, and the Redemption of the Mexican Revolution

by Marjorie Becker

Book Overview

In this beautifully written work, Marjorie Becker reconstructs the cultural encounters which led to Mexico's post-revolutionary government. She sets aside the mythology surrounding president L zaro C rdenas to reveal his dilemma: until he and his followers understood peasant culture, they could not govern. This dilemma is vividly illustrated in Michoac n. There, peasants were passionately engaged in a Catholic culture focusing on the Virgin Mary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520084195
• ISBN13: 9780520084193
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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