Forced marches soldiers and military caciques in modern Mexico / [electronic resource] : edited by Ben Fallaw and Terry Rugeley. - Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2012. - vii, 277 p., [12] p. of plates : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Redrafting history : the challenges of scholarship on the Mexican military experience / Terry Rugeley and Ben Fallaw -- An unsatisfactory picture of civil commotion : unpopular militias and tepid nationalism in the Mexican southeast / Terry Rugeley -- The mobile national guard of Guanajuato, 1855-1858 : military hybridization and statecraft in reforma Mexico / Daniel S. Haworth -- Behaving badly in Mexico City : discipline and identity in the presidential guards, 1900-1911 / Stephen Neufeld -- Heliodoro Charis Castro and the soldiers of Juchitan : indigenous militarism, local rule, and the Mexican state / Benjamin T. Smith -- Eulogio Ortiz : the army and the antipolitics of postrevolutionary state formation, 1920-1935 / Ben Fallaw -- Revolutionary citizenship against institutional inertia : Cardenismo and the Mexican Army, 1934-1940 / Thomas Rath -- Military caciquismo in the Priista state : general Mange's command in Veracruz / Paul Gillingham -- Conclusion : reflections on state theory through the lens of the Mexican military / David Nugent.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780816599424 (electronic bk.)




Militarism--Social aspects--Mexico.
Militarism--Political aspects--Mexico.


Mexico--History, Military--19th century.
Mexico--History, Military--20th century.
Mexico--Armed Forces--History--19th century.
Mexico--Armed Forces--History--20th century.


Electronic books.

F1227.5 / .F67 2012

355.0097209/0/4