Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
1. What Makes Peasants Counterrevolutionary?
The Problem of Partisanship in Mexico's Cristero Rebellion
2. Liberals, Indians, and the Catholic Church in Nineteenth-Century Michoacan
3. State Formation in Revolutionary Michoacan
4. The Cristiada: Elites and Popular Groups in Rebellion against the Revolutionary State
5. The Agraristas of the Zacapu Region
6. Catholics, Cristeros, and Agraristas in the Purepecha Highlands
7. The Cristeros of Northwestern Michoacan
8. Popular Groups, Political Identities, and the State in Mexico: The Cristiada in Comparative Perspective
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Jennie Purnell is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston College.

Reviews

"An exceptionally important book. Purnell brings a sweeping innovation to the study of the Mexican Revolution, the cristero revolt, and other early-twentieth-century developments." ([edited, RR, PP] John Tutino, Georgetown University.) "Purnell has produced an analysis that is new and helpful not only to our understanding popular agency in the Revolution but for writing history from below-especially the history of state formation as a contested, social phenomenon. ([slightly edited, RR, PP] Mary Kay Vaughan, University of Illinois at Chicago) "This is a well written and researched work on popular consciousness and state and identity formation."--British Bulletin of Publications on Latin America, April 2001