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Rural protest and the making of democracy in Mexico, 1968-2000

Trevizo, Dolores.

Rural protest and the making of democracy in Mexico, 1968-2000 [electronic resource] / Dolores Trevizo. - University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (xviii, 245 p. :) ill., map ; - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The rural roots of Mexico's nascent democracy : the role of peasants and agrarian capitalists in opposition politics -- Social movements and democratization -- The "banner of 1968" : the student movement's democratizing effects -- State repression and the dispersal of radicals into Mexico's countryside, 1970-1975 -- Capitalists on the road to political power in Mexico : class struggle, neopanismo, and the birth of democracy -- The rural sources of the PRD's electoral resiliency -- Conclusion: The post-1968 struggle for democracy in rural Mexico -- Appendixes.

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Student movements--History--Mexico--20th century.
Peasants--Political activity--History--Mexico--20th century.
Democracy--History--Mexico--20th century.
Social movements--History--Mexico--20th century.
Protest movements--History--Mexico--20th century.


Mexico--Rural conditions.
Mexico--Politics and government--1988-2000.
Mexico--Politics and government--1970-1988.


Electronic books.

F1236 / .T75 2011

972.08/2