Ben Fallaw: 2 books
Cárdenas Compromised
The Failure of Reform in Postrevolutionary Yucatán
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2001
Cárdenas Compromised is a political and institutional history of Mexico’s urban and rural labor in the Yucatán region during the regime of Lázaro Cárdenas from 1934 to 1940. Drawing on archival materials, both official and popular, Fallaw combines narrative, individual case studies, and focused...
by Ben Fallaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
The religion question—the place of the Church in a Catholic country after an anticlerical revolution—profoundly shaped the process of state formation in Mexico. From the end of the Cristero War in 1929 until Manuel Ávila Camacho assumed the presidency in late 1940 and declared his faith, Mexico's...