Old Loves, New Loyalties

Agrarismo in Michoacán, 1920-1928

Bibliographic Data

ID2830994
AuthorsChristopher R Boyer (corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume78
Issue3
Pages419
Publication date1998-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2518331
OpenAlexW4234491682
LanguageEN
Citations received16

Sixty-five years after he laid down the carbine that he had used to batde Catholic guerrilla rebels in the late I92os, an elderly peasant from the western state of Michoacain reflected on what had inspired him and his comrades to risk their lives on behalf of Mexico's revolutionary government: We fought with complete loyalty, for love of the land, Trinidad Coronel explained, because the high clergy and the hacienda owners wanted to demolish agrarismo. They wanted to take over the lands. And we fought with open love for the land.1 Coronel's comments distill the odd hybrid of well-worn attitudes and newly minted cultural values that together formed the postrevolutionary peas

Ancient history · Citizen journalism · Economic history · Government (linguistics) · Loyalty · Peasant · Political science · State (computer science) · Historical Studies in Latin America · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics · Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography · Philosophy · Politics and Society in Latin America

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