Setting the Virgin on Fire

By Marjorie Becker

Subjects: Politics and government, Korea, history, Peasantry, Relations with peasantry, Indians of Mexico, Political culture, Indians of mexico, government relations, Cardenas, lazaro, 1895-1970, Mexico, politics and government, Social aspects, History, Peasants, Government relations

Description: "Provides convincing revision of the 'myth of secular redemption' surrounding Lázaro Cárdenas and his program of land distribution to the campesinos. Operating on a 'stripped-down image of land-hungry peasants,' Cárdenas and his supporters underestimated the difficulty of gaining peasant allegiance to the post-revolutionary government and initially failed to understand that they were confronting a cultural as well as an economic problem as they tried to extend revolutionary hegemony"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.