Abstract
Nationalism, Localism, and the Role of Intervention: A View of Rural Mexico Rural Revolt in Mexico: U. S. Intervention and the Domain of Subaltern Politics, edited by Daniel Nugent, foreword by William C. Roseberry. Durham, NC: Duke University Press (1998). Reviewed by David Stea
Highlights
Nationalism, Localism, and the Role of Intervention: A View of Rural Mexico Rural Revolt in Mexico: U
Localism and Nationalism Beyond the first three chapters, the contributions to Nugent’s book are predominantly regional: given the relative weight of U.S intervention in the north, it is reasonable that five focus on either Chihuahua (Osorio, Lloyd, Koreck, Alonso, and Katz), or Villa’s exploits in the north
Turner (1968), Knight (1986), and Alonso in the Nugent volume seem agreed that at a grassroots level Mexico in 1910 was more of a community and regional mosaic than a nation: The bulk of the population was illiterate; communications were poor; ethnic, linguistic, and vertical differences mitigated against the formation of a nationalist “horizontal comradeship” and the influence of the church worked against the secular, political imagining of community (Alonso, 1998: 212)
Summary
Nationalism, Localism, and the Role of Intervention: A View of Rural Mexico Rural Revolt in Mexico: U. Because the emphasis of the book is upon rural peasantry and rural mobilization, little mention is made of some important pre-Revolutionary connections between Mexico and the U.S.A. Pre-Revolutionary opposition to Diaz, for example, was largely divided between the followers of Madero and the supporters of the Flores Magon brothers and their Partido Liberal Mexicano ( known as the magonistas, referring to one of the two strongly nationalist and antiU.S. political parties, formed just prior to the Revolution).
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