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Preface / Paul Gillingham vii Acknowledgments xv Glossary of Institutions and Acronyms xvii Introduction: The Paradoxes of Revolution / Paul Gillingham and Benjamin T. Smith 1 High and Low Politics 45 1. The End of the Mexican Revolution? From Cardenas to Aveila Camacho, 1937-1941 / Alan Knight 47 2. Intransigence, Anticommunism, and Reconciliation: Church/State Relations in Transition / Roberto Blancarte 70 3. Camouflaging the State: The Army and the Limits of Hegemony in PRIista Mexico, 1940-1960 / Thomas Rath 89 4. Strongmen and State Weakness / Rogelio Hernandez Rodriguez 108 5. Tropical Passion in the Desert: Gonzalo N. Santos and Local Elections in Nothern San Luis Potosi, 1943-1958 / Wil G. Pansters 126 6. Don't Have Arms, but We Do Have Balls: Fraud, Violience, and Popular Agency in Elections / Paul Gillingham 149 Work and Resource Regulation 173 7. The Golden Age of Charrismo: Workers, Braceros, and the Political Machinery of Postrevolutionary Mexico / Michael Snodgrass 175 8. The Forgotten Jaramillo: Building a Social Base of Support for Authoritarianism in Rural Mexico / Gladys McCormick 196 9. Community, Crony Capitalism, and Fortress Conservation in Mexican Forests / Christopher R. Boyer 217 10. Advocate or Cacica? Guadalupe Urzua Flores: Modernizer and Peasant Political Leader in Jalisco / Maria Teresa Fernandez Aceves 236 11. Building a State on the Cheap: Taxation, Social Movements, and Politics / Benjamin T. Smith 255 Culture and Ideology 277 12. The End of Revolutionary Anthropology? Notes on Indigenismo / Guillermo de la Pena 279 13. Cooling to Cinema and Warming to Television: State Mass Media Policy, 1940-1964 / Andrew Paxman 299 14. Pistoleros, Ley Fuga, and Uncertainty in Public Debates about Murder in Twentieth-Century Mexico / Pablo Piccato 321 15. Rural Education, Political Radicalism, and Normalista Identity in Mexico after 1940 / Tanalis Padilla 341 16. The Rise of a National Student Problem in 1956 / Jaime M. Pensado 360 Final Comments. Contextualizing the Regime: What 1938-1968 Tells Us about Mexico, Power, and Latin America's Twentieth Century / Jeffrey W. Rubin 379 Select Bibliography 397 Contributors 427 Index 429

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