Comparative Studies in Society and History · 1987 · 41 citations · 1 references
HumanitiesHistoryPolitical ScienceConstitutional HistoryLatin American HistoryPolitical HistoryMexican American HistoryPopular ConstitutionalismRevolutionary MovementsWhite SupremacyMexican American Political HistoryMexican RevolutionRevolutionary Constitution-making
It is well known that upon emerging victorious from the Mexican Revolution in 1920, the Constitutionalists confronted a dilemma. Having defeated the popular armies of Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa, they believed that they had won the right to construct a postrevolutionary state reflecting their interests. Yet the spectors of the popular armies were to haunt them. The new revolutionary elites were forced to determine how to create a state in their own Constitutionalist image and simultaneously how to avoid provoking further popular insurrection.
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Weapons of the weak: Everyday forms of peasant resistance
World Development · 1986 · 9.9K citations