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Author Ristow, Colby, author.

Title A revolution unfinished : the Chegomista rebellion and the limits of revolutionary democracy in Juchitan, Oaxaca / Colby Ristow.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 297 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The Mexican experience
Mexican experience.
Summary "A Revolution Unfinished examines the mobilization and subsequent repression of the Chegomista Rebellion of 1911"-- Provided by publisher.
In October 1911 the governor of Oaxaca, Mexico, ordered a detachment of approximately 250 soldiers to take control of the town of Juchitán from Jose F. "Che" Gomez and a movement defending the principle of popular sovereignty. The standoff between federal soldiers and the Chegomistas continued until federal reinforcements arrived and violently repressed the movement in the name of democracy. In A Revolution Unfinished Colby Ristow provides the first book-length study of what has come to be known as the Chegomista Rebellion, shedding new light on a conflict previously lost in the shadows of the concurrent Zapatista uprising. The study examines the limits of democracy under Mexico's first revolutionary regime through a detailed analysis of the confrontation between Mexico's nineteenth-century tradition of moderate liberalism and locally constructed popular liberalism in the politics of Juchitán, Oaxaca. Couched in the context of local, state, and national politics at the beginning of the revolution, the study draws on an array of local, national, and international archival and newspaper sources to provide a dramatic day-by-day description of the Chegomista Rebellion and the events preceding it. Ristow links the events in Juchitán with historical themes such as popular politics, ethnicity, and revolutionary state formation and strips away the romanticism of previous studies of Juchitán, offering a window into the mechanics of late Porfirian state-society relations and early revolutionary governance.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The Chegomista rebellion and the limits of revolutionary democracy -- "The Barrio de Arriba and the Barrio de Abajo" : a tale of two cities in Porfirian Juchitan -- "The rebirth of an old political party" : liberal politics and the rise of the Chegomista movement -- "They imagined that the horse and the rider were one" : the Chegomista rebellion -- "It is not possible with the stroke of a pen to suppress the Jefaturas" : state sovereignty and the peace process in Juchitan -- "More ignorant than guilty" : a "counterinsurgent" narrative of the Chegomista rebellion -- Political assassination and the limits of revolutionary democracy.
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Subject Juchitán de Zaragoza (Mexico) -- History.
Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920.
Oaxaca (Mexico : State) -- History.
Revolution (Mexico : 1910-1920)
Chronological Term 1910-1920
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Ristow, Colby. Revolution Unfinished. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018] (DLC) 2017052548
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