Myths of Demilitarization in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920-1960 |
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| Author:
| Rath, Thomas |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8078-3929-4 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2013 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $85.00AUD $50.00 |
Book Description:
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At the end of the Mexican Revolution, Mexico's large army dominated national politics. By the 1940s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was led by a civilian president and claimed to have depoliticised the army and achieved the bloodless pacification of the Mexican countryside through land reform, schooling, and indigenismo. Thomas Rath argues, Mexico's celebrated demilitarisation was more protracted, conflict-ridden, and incomplete than most accounts assume.
At the end of the Mexican Revolution, Mexico's large army dominated national politics. By the 1940s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was led by a civilian president and claimed to have depoliticised the army and achieved the bloodless pacification of the Mexican countryside through land reform, schooling, and indigenismo. Thomas Rath argues, Mexico's celebrated demilitarisation was more protracted, conflict-ridden, and incomplete than most accounts assume.