Setting the Virgin on fire

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.

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

People: Lázaro Cárdenas (1895-1970)

Places: Mexico,  Michoacán de Ocampo

Times: 20th century,  Revolution, 1910-1920,  1910-1946