Ben Fallaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Fallaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Fallaw |
| SIGNATURE | BEN FALLAW |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colby College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Imagining socialisms in southeastern Mexico: Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Bartolomé García Correa and Yucatán’s Maya majority, 1915–1923
Mexico’s first significant socialist party was founded in the southeastern state of Yucatán in 1916. Most of its members were Indigenous, but few of its leaders were. This article explores the careers of Felipe Carrillo Puerto (1874–1924), the most influential governor elected by the party, and his protégé and eventual successor, Bartolomé García Correa (1893–1978). It focuses on how Indigeneity shaped their distinct ideas of socialism and how th…
Histories of Drug Trafficking in Twentieth-Century Mexico
This edited collection features cutting-edge research on the production, trafficking, and attempted control of drugs in Mexico. Most chapters are distinguished by their use of newly opened archives (above all judicial ones) and benefit from interdisciplinary approaches. Wil Pansters and Benjamin Smith display a deft editorial touch throughout the volume, and their intimate knowledge of Mexican history and politics shines through in their introduc…
Limits on the Press and Civil Society during the Maximato
In October 1931, Governor Bartolomé García Correa and Socialist Party activists violently closed Carlos R. Menéndez’s Diario de Yucatán for being reactionary. Defenders of the Diario denounced the governor for illegally silencing the voice of what today we would understand to be civil society. After a seventeen-month struggle in the courts, the national press, and in Mexico City’s bureaucracy, Menéndez prevailed. This article closely examines the…
Stephen E. Lewis. Rethinking Mexican Indigenismo: The INI’s Coordinating Center in Highland Chiapas and the Fate of a Utopian Project
Stephen E. Lewis’s fine monograph Rethinking Mexican Indigenismo: The INI’s Coordinating Center in Highland Chiapas and the Fate of a Utopian Project explores the National Indigenous Institute (INI, for its initials in Spanish) and its operations in the Chiapas highlands from the inauguration of its Coordinating Center in 1951 until its late 1970s decline. Rather than approaching his subject from a teleological perspective as backstory to the neo…
Elusive unity: Factionalism and the limits of identity politics in Yucatán, Mexico
Why has identity politics been tepidly received by the Yucatecan Maya, while it has thrived among the Maya in neighboring Chiapas and Guatemala? Armstrong-Fumero's fine first monograph examines its
Halbert Jones. The War Has Brought Peace to Mexico: World War II and the Consolidation of the Post-Revolutionary State
Journal Article Halbert Jones. The War Has Brought Peace to Mexico: World War II and the Consolidation of the Post-Revolutionary State. Get access Halbert Jones. The War Has Brought Peace to Mexico: World War II and the Consolidation of the Post-Revolutionary State. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2014. Pp. xvi, 296. $55.00. Ben Fallaw Ben Fallaw Colby College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
The Roots of Conservatism in Mexico: Catholicism, Society, and Politics in the Mixtec Baja, 1750-1962 - by Smith, Benjamin T
The Seduction of Revolution: Anticlerical Campaigns against Confession in Mexico, 1914-1935
During the Mexican Revolution, male revolutionaries in Mexico repeatedly tried to suppress confession by invoking the trope of the sexually predatory priest menacing weak, superstitious women. Campaigns against the rite resulted from long-standing gender divisions over the Church, fears of Catholic counter-revolution, and male revolutionaries' drive to modernise marriage as companionate and secular but still patriarchal. Although ultimately unsuc…
The Making of a Market: Credit, Henequen, and Notaries in Yucatán, 1850-1900Los Hacendados de Yucatán, 1785-1847
Laura Machuca’s and Juliette Levy’s first monographs explore Yucatecan hacendados before henequen and the making of the mortgage market that financed the peninsula’s famed fiber boom, respectively.Machuca productively combines economic analysis of haciendas (their size, capitalization, labor relations, and inheritance patterns) with a prosopography of hacendados. Expanding on existing scholarly literature, she documents how some hacendado clans p…
Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico
Primitive Revolution: Restorationist Religion and the Idea of the Mexican Revolution, 1940-1968
In Primitive Revolution, Jason Dormady focuses on three intentional religious communities in mid-twentieth century Mexico: former Pentecostal Joaquín “Aarón” González’s La Luz del Mundo (Guadalajara), dissident Latter Day Saint Margarito Bautista Valen-cia’s New Jerusalem Industrial Colony (Mexico State), and Salvador Abascal’s Sinarquista La Paz colony (Baja California). The three, Dormady argues, were important parts of Mexico’s postrevolutiona…
Adrian Bantjes (1960-2010)
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Dos mujeres fuera de serie: Elvia Carrillo Puerto y Felipa PootGender and the Mexican Revolution: Yucatán Women and the Realities of Patriarchy
Yucatán has long been recognized as Mexico’s leading revolutionary laboratory of the teens and twenties, in no small part due to reforms aimed at uplifting women: divorce, limited suffrage, expanded opportunities for education, and even a feminist congress. Although Yucatán’s women’s movement has been the object of several notable studies, we still know relatively little about how revolutionary legal reforms and discursive shifts affected the eve…
Varieties of Mexican Revolutionary Anticlericalism: Radicalism, Iconoclasm, and Otherwise, 1914–1935
Two days before Easter 1916, a teacher in the Mérida ferrocarrilleros ’ school demolished a pine statue of Saint Joseph with an axe to show “it was simply a monkey on a stick ( un tucho de palo )”; students then hacked up smaller icons before approving parents. During the Cristiada, General Eulogio Ortíz ate consecrated hosts with carnitas de puerco in a public market in Zacatecas. Constitutionalist military proconsuls in 1914-15, leftist regiona…
Bartolomé García Correa and the Politics of Maya Identity in Postrevolutionary Yucatán, 1911-1933
This political biography explores the ambiguous ethnicity of Bartolomé García Correa (1893-1978), the first person of Maya descent to govern Yucatán since the Spanish Conquest. Son of an upwardly mobile, Maya-speaking, afromestizo middle-class family, García Correa's normal education and ties to the Church set him on a path to socioeconomic success in the autumn of the Porfiriato. During the Mexican Revolution, he reinvented himself as a revoluti…
Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua by Elizabeth Dore
Romancing the Maya: Mexican Antiquity in the American Imagination 1820-1915
Romancing the Maya: Mexican Antiquity in the American Imagination 1820–1915
Indian and Nation in Revolutionary Mexico
Alexander Dawson sets out to understand how indigenismo functioned both as a legitimizing ideology and as a means of popular mobilization in postrevolutionary Mexico. At the same time, he charts how indigenista institutions—boarding schools, the Department of Indigenous Affairs (DAI), and the National Indigenous Institution (INI)—fostered a cohort of bilingual, bicultural indigenous men (capacitados). As such, his work bridges the new cultural hi…
Rethinking Mayan Resistance: Changing Relations between Federal Teachers and Mayan Communities in Eastern Yucatan, 1929–1935
En las escuelas federales abiertas en el oriente de Valladolid ent e 1928 y 1935, se suponía que las comunidades Mayas rechazaron a los maest os en defensa de su cultura e identitad. De hecho, la esistencia cont a las escuelas fue por ot as causas: el apoyo económico exigido por las escuelas a las comunidades, el echazo de la coeducación, y la envidia de los políticos. Vista desde esta perspectiva, es necesario modificar substancialmente la idea …
Rethinking Mayan Resistance: Changing Relations between Federal Teachers and Mayan Communities in Eastern Yucatan, 1929-1935
Dry Law, Wet Politics: Drinking and Prohibition in Post-Revolutionary Yucatán, 1915–1935
Two radical revolutionary governors of Yucatán, Salvador Alvarado (1915–1918) and Felipe Carrillo Puerto (1922–1923), as well as many Yucatecan men and especially women considered prohibition as the key to reform, as was the case in many other regions of Mexico. Scholars, however, have long ignored the crucial role of alcohol in revolutionary and post-revolutionary Mexico. This article examines the linkages among prohibition, gender, and politics…
Hernán Menéndez Rodríguez
When historian Hernán Menéndez Rodríguez died suddenly on 6 January 2002, just after his beloved Sunday game of béisbol, scholars of Yucatán lost both a friend and an admired colleague. The scion of one of the most distinguished intellectual families in Yucatán, Hernán had been raised and trained as a journalist, working since the 1960s with his brother Mario Renato. They directed the famous leftist Mexico City magazine ¿Por Qúe? (1968–74) and si…
The Life and Deaths of Felipa Poot: Women, Fiction, and Cardenismo in Postrevolutionary Mexico
On the night of 28 March 1936, gunmen linked to a cacique killed a young peasant leader in the village of Kinchil in western Yucatán. Such incidents proved far from rare in rural Mexico of the 1920s and 1930s, as factional disputes over land or local power often played out violently. What is exceptional about the murder in Kinchil is that the murdered community leader was a woman, Felipa Poot.Poot's life and death inspired a series of writers, jo…
The Worm in the Wheat: Rosalie Evans and Agrarian Struggle in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley of Mexico, 1906-1927; Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Individual, and Nation in the Northern Peruvian A…
Book Review| April 01 2001 The Worm in the Wheat: Rosalie Evans and Agrarian Struggle in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley of Mexico, 1906-1927; Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Individual, and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes, 1885-1935 By Timothy J. Henderson. (Durham, nc: Duke University Press,1998. viii + 288 pp., introduction, prologue, epilogue, illustrations, maps,appendixes, bibliography, index. $18.95 paper.)By David Nugent. (Stanfo…
Varieties of Mexican Revolutionary Anticlericalism: Radicalism, Iconoclasm, and Otherwise, 1914–1935
Two days before Easter 1916, a teacher in the Mérida ferrocarrilleros ’ school demolished a pine statue of Saint Joseph with an axe to show “it was simply a monkey on a stick ( un tucho de palo )”; students then hacked up smaller icons before approving parents. During the Cristiada, General Eulogio Ortíz ate consecrated hosts with carnitas de puerco in a public market in Zacatecas. Constitutionalist military proconsuls in 1914-15, leftist regiona…
Cárdenas and the Caste War that Wasn't: State Power and Indigenismo in Post-Revolutionary Yucatán
The Caste War that devastated Yucatán in the middle of the nineteenth century cast a long shadow across ethnic relations and politics in the state decades after its effective end. During the Mexican Revolution and the subsequent period of national reconstruction, revolutionary politicians invoked the Caste War as a precursor to the Revolution and as justification for post-Revolutionary projects, in particular indigenismo. The state's indigenist p…
The Seduction of Revolution: Anticlerical Campaigns against Confession in Mexico, 1914-1935
During the Mexican Revolution, male revolutionaries in Mexico repeatedly tried to suppress confession by invoking the trope of the sexually predatory priest menacing weak, superstitious women. Campaigns against the rite resulted from long-standing gender divisions over the Church, fears of Catholic counter-revolution, and male revolutionaries' drive to modernise marriage as companionate and secular but still patriarchal. Although ultimately unsuc…
Bartolomé García Correa and the Politics of Maya Identity in Postrevolutionary Yucatán, 1911-1933
This political biography explores the ambiguous ethnicity of Bartolomé García Correa (1893-1978), the first person of Maya descent to govern Yucatán since the Spanish Conquest. Son of an upwardly mobile, Maya-speaking, afromestizo middle-class family, García Correa's normal education and ties to the Church set him on a path to socioeconomic success in the autumn of the Porfiriato. During the Mexican Revolution, he reinvented himself as a revoluti…
The Southeast Was Red: Left-State Alliances and Popular Mobilizations in Yucatán, 1930–1940
Between 1935 and 1940, President Lázaro Cárdenas of Mexico mobilized a populist coalition in support of land reform, workers’ rights, and a more inclusive political system. For years, scholars either ignored the crucial role of the Mexican Communist Party (Partido Comunista Mexicano [PCM]) in Cardenismo , or considered it a tool used and then discarded by the emerging national state (Shulgovski 1968; Anguiano 1975; Ianni 1977). Recently, Barry Ca…
Primitive Revolution: Restorationist Religion and the Idea of the Mexican Revolution, 1940-1968
In Primitive Revolution, Jason Dormady focuses on three intentional religious communities in mid-twentieth century Mexico: former Pentecostal Joaquín “Aarón” González’s La Luz del Mundo (Guadalajara), dissident Latter Day Saint Margarito Bautista Valen-cia’s New Jerusalem Industrial Colony (Mexico State), and Salvador Abascal’s Sinarquista La Paz colony (Baja California). The three, Dormady argues, were important parts of Mexico’s postrevolutiona…
The Life and Deaths of Felipa Poot: Women, Fiction, and Cardenismo in Postrevolutionary Mexico
On the night of 28 March 1936, gunmen linked to a cacique killed a young peasant leader in the village of Kinchil in western Yucatán. Such incidents proved far from rare in rural Mexico of the 1920s and 1930s, as factional disputes over land or local power often played out violently. What is exceptional about the murder in Kinchil is that the murdered community leader was a woman, Felipa Poot.Poot's life and death inspired a series of writers, jo…
Cárdenas and the Caste War that Wasn't: State Power and Indigenismo in Post-Revolutionary Yucatán
The Caste War that devastated Yucatán in the middle of the nineteenth century cast a long shadow across ethnic relations and politics in the state decades after its effective end. During the Mexican Revolution and the subsequent period of national reconstruction, revolutionary politicians invoked the Caste War as a precursor to the Revolution and as justification for post-Revolutionary projects, in particular indigenismo. The state's indigenist p…
The Southeast Was Red: Left-State Alliances and Popular Mobilizations in Yucatán, 1930–1940
Between 1935 and 1940, President Lázaro Cárdenas of Mexico mobilized a populist coalition in support of land reform, workers’ rights, and a more inclusive political system. For years, scholars either ignored the crucial role of the Mexican Communist Party (Partido Comunista Mexicano [PCM]) in Cardenismo , or considered it a tool used and then discarded by the emerging national state (Shulgovski 1968; Anguiano 1975; Ianni 1977). Recently, Barry Ca…
The Worm in the Wheat: Rosalie Evans and Agrarian Struggle in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley of Mexico, 1906-1927; Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Individual, and Nation in the Northern Peruvian A…
Book Review| April 01 2001 The Worm in the Wheat: Rosalie Evans and Agrarian Struggle in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley of Mexico, 1906-1927; Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Individual, and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes, 1885-1935 By Timothy J. Henderson. (Durham, nc: Duke University Press,1998. viii + 288 pp., introduction, prologue, epilogue, illustrations, maps,appendixes, bibliography, index. $18.95 paper.)By David Nugent. (Stanfo…
Dry Law, Wet Politics: Drinking and Prohibition in Post-Revolutionary Yucatán, 1915–1935
Two radical revolutionary governors of Yucatán, Salvador Alvarado (1915–1918) and Felipe Carrillo Puerto (1922–1923), as well as many Yucatecan men and especially women considered prohibition as the key to reform, as was the case in many other regions of Mexico. Scholars, however, have long ignored the crucial role of alcohol in revolutionary and post-revolutionary Mexico. This article examines the linkages among prohibition, gender, and politics…
Hernán Menéndez Rodríguez
When historian Hernán Menéndez Rodríguez died suddenly on 6 January 2002, just after his beloved Sunday game of béisbol, scholars of Yucatán lost both a friend and an admired colleague. The scion of one of the most distinguished intellectual families in Yucatán, Hernán had been raised and trained as a journalist, working since the 1960s with his brother Mario Renato. They directed the famous leftist Mexico City magazine ¿Por Qúe? (1968–74) and si…
The Life and Deaths of Felipa Poot: Women, Fiction, and Cardenismo in Postrevolutionary Mexico
On the night of 28 March 1936, gunmen linked to a cacique killed a young peasant leader in the village of Kinchil in western Yucatán. Such incidents proved far from rare in rural Mexico of the 1920s and 1930s, as factional disputes over land or local power often played out violently. What is exceptional about the murder in Kinchil is that the murdered community leader was a woman, Felipa Poot.Poot's life and death inspired a series of writers, jo…
Rethinking Mayan Resistance: Changing Relations between Federal Teachers and Mayan Communities in Eastern Yucatan, 1929–1935
En las escuelas federales abiertas en el oriente de Valladolid ent e 1928 y 1935, se suponía que las comunidades Mayas rechazaron a los maest os en defensa de su cultura e identitad. De hecho, la esistencia cont a las escuelas fue por ot as causas: el apoyo económico exigido por las escuelas a las comunidades, el echazo de la coeducación, y la envidia de los políticos. Vista desde esta perspectiva, es necesario modificar substancialmente la idea …
Rethinking Mayan Resistance: Changing Relations between Federal Teachers and Mayan Communities in Eastern Yucatan, 1929-1935
Romancing the Maya: Mexican Antiquity in the American Imagination 1820-1915
Romancing the Maya: Mexican Antiquity in the American Imagination 1820–1915
Indian and Nation in Revolutionary Mexico
Alexander Dawson sets out to understand how indigenismo functioned both as a legitimizing ideology and as a means of popular mobilization in postrevolutionary Mexico. At the same time, he charts how indigenista institutions—boarding schools, the Department of Indigenous Affairs (DAI), and the National Indigenous Institution (INI)—fostered a cohort of bilingual, bicultural indigenous men (capacitados). As such, his work bridges the new cultural hi…
Bartolomé García Correa and the Politics of Maya Identity in Postrevolutionary Yucatán, 1911-1933
This political biography explores the ambiguous ethnicity of Bartolomé García Correa (1893-1978), the first person of Maya descent to govern Yucatán since the Spanish Conquest. Son of an upwardly mobile, Maya-speaking, afromestizo middle-class family, García Correa's normal education and ties to the Church set him on a path to socioeconomic success in the autumn of the Porfiriato. During the Mexican Revolution, he reinvented himself as a revoluti…
Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua by Elizabeth Dore
Varieties of Mexican Revolutionary Anticlericalism: Radicalism, Iconoclasm, and Otherwise, 1914–1935
Two days before Easter 1916, a teacher in the Mérida ferrocarrilleros ’ school demolished a pine statue of Saint Joseph with an axe to show “it was simply a monkey on a stick ( un tucho de palo )”; students then hacked up smaller icons before approving parents. During the Cristiada, General Eulogio Ortíz ate consecrated hosts with carnitas de puerco in a public market in Zacatecas. Constitutionalist military proconsuls in 1914-15, leftist regiona…
Dos mujeres fuera de serie: Elvia Carrillo Puerto y Felipa PootGender and the Mexican Revolution: Yucatán Women and the Realities of Patriarchy
Yucatán has long been recognized as Mexico’s leading revolutionary laboratory of the teens and twenties, in no small part due to reforms aimed at uplifting women: divorce, limited suffrage, expanded opportunities for education, and even a feminist congress. Although Yucatán’s women’s movement has been the object of several notable studies, we still know relatively little about how revolutionary legal reforms and discursive shifts affected the eve…
Adrian Bantjes (1960-2010)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico
Primitive Revolution: Restorationist Religion and the Idea of the Mexican Revolution, 1940-1968
In Primitive Revolution, Jason Dormady focuses on three intentional religious communities in mid-twentieth century Mexico: former Pentecostal Joaquín “Aarón” González’s La Luz del Mundo (Guadalajara), dissident Latter Day Saint Margarito Bautista Valen-cia’s New Jerusalem Industrial Colony (Mexico State), and Salvador Abascal’s Sinarquista La Paz colony (Baja California). The three, Dormady argues, were important parts of Mexico’s postrevolutiona…
The Seduction of Revolution: Anticlerical Campaigns against Confession in Mexico, 1914-1935
During the Mexican Revolution, male revolutionaries in Mexico repeatedly tried to suppress confession by invoking the trope of the sexually predatory priest menacing weak, superstitious women. Campaigns against the rite resulted from long-standing gender divisions over the Church, fears of Catholic counter-revolution, and male revolutionaries' drive to modernise marriage as companionate and secular but still patriarchal. Although ultimately unsuc…
The Making of a Market: Credit, Henequen, and Notaries in Yucatán, 1850-1900Los Hacendados de Yucatán, 1785-1847
Laura Machuca’s and Juliette Levy’s first monographs explore Yucatecan hacendados before henequen and the making of the mortgage market that financed the peninsula’s famed fiber boom, respectively.Machuca productively combines economic analysis of haciendas (their size, capitalization, labor relations, and inheritance patterns) with a prosopography of hacendados. Expanding on existing scholarly literature, she documents how some hacendado clans p…
Elusive unity: Factionalism and the limits of identity politics in Yucatán, Mexico
Why has identity politics been tepidly received by the Yucatecan Maya, while it has thrived among the Maya in neighboring Chiapas and Guatemala? Armstrong-Fumero's fine first monograph examines its
Halbert Jones. The War Has Brought Peace to Mexico: World War II and the Consolidation of the Post-Revolutionary State
Journal Article Halbert Jones. The War Has Brought Peace to Mexico: World War II and the Consolidation of the Post-Revolutionary State. Get access Halbert Jones. The War Has Brought Peace to Mexico: World War II and the Consolidation of the Post-Revolutionary State. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2014. Pp. xvi, 296. $55.00. Ben Fallaw Ben Fallaw Colby College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
The Roots of Conservatism in Mexico: Catholicism, Society, and Politics in the Mixtec Baja, 1750-1962 - by Smith, Benjamin T
Limits on the Press and Civil Society during the Maximato
In October 1931, Governor Bartolomé García Correa and Socialist Party activists violently closed Carlos R. Menéndez’s Diario de Yucatán for being reactionary. Defenders of the Diario denounced the governor for illegally silencing the voice of what today we would understand to be civil society. After a seventeen-month struggle in the courts, the national press, and in Mexico City’s bureaucracy, Menéndez prevailed. This article closely examines the…
Stephen E. Lewis. Rethinking Mexican Indigenismo: The INI’s Coordinating Center in Highland Chiapas and the Fate of a Utopian Project
Stephen E. Lewis’s fine monograph Rethinking Mexican Indigenismo: The INI’s Coordinating Center in Highland Chiapas and the Fate of a Utopian Project explores the National Indigenous Institute (INI, for its initials in Spanish) and its operations in the Chiapas highlands from the inauguration of its Coordinating Center in 1951 until its late 1970s decline. Rather than approaching his subject from a teleological perspective as backstory to the neo…
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