Los pueblos indios en los tiempos de Benito Judrez(1847-1872)

摘要

Based on a conference held in 2006, bicentenary of the birth of Benito Juarez, leader of Mexico's Liberal Reforma, this collection shares some of the weaknesses of commemorative volumes: unevenness of quality and, in several cases, only loose connection to either Juarez or Indian villages, the main subjects of the book. Juarez, of course, turned his back on his Zapotec roots and saw the eradication of the separate and subordinate status of Mexico's Indians as one of his duties. Yet, as some of the essays show, Mexico's anguished politics during the mid-nineteenth century required Juarez to be pragmatic in his dealings with Indian resistance to Liberal state building.