For God and Revolution: Priest, Peasant, and Agrarian Socialism in the Mexican Huasteca
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- Synopsis
- This account traces the material and ideological roots of the rebellion to nineteenth-century liberal policies of land privatization and to the growth of a radical anarchocommunist agrarian consciousness. Elite landholders had held sway in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosà since colonial times. In the nineteenth century their seizures of agricultural lands clashed with the rising political consciousness of the Huastecos, who rose up to fight for their way of life. Saka further traces the roots of the Huasteco rebellion to the grassroots religiosity that had developed in the course of centuries of local clerical leadership as well as to a nationalism derived from Huastecan participation in Mexico's wars against the United States in the 1840s and France in the 1860s.
- Copyright:
- 2013
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 186 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780826353382
- Publisher:
- University of New Mexico Press
- Date of Addition:
- 01/28/16
- Copyrighted By:
- University of New Mexico Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Daproim Africa
- Proofread By:
- Daproim Africa
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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