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Title:

Violence, coercion, and state-making in twentieth-century Mexico : the other half of the centaur / edited by Wil G. Pansters.

Publisher:

Stanford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xxii, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Mexico--Politics and government--20th century.
Violence--History--Mexico--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

Pansters, W. G. (Wil G.), editor of compilation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-361) and index.

Contents:

11. New violence, insecurity, and the State: comparative reflections on Latin America and Mexico / Kees Koonings. 2. States, borders, and violence : lessons from the U.S.-Mexican experience / David A. Shirk -- 3. Policing and regime transition: from postauthoritarianism to populism to neoliberalism / Diane E. Davis -- 4. Who killed Crispâin Aguilar?: violence and order in the postrevolutionary countryside / Paul Gillingham -- 5. Narco-violence and the State in modern Mexico / Alan Knight -- 6. States of violence: state-crime relations in Mexico / Mâonica Serrano -- 7. Policing new illegalities: piracy, raids, and madrinas / Josâe Carlos G. Aguiar -- 8. The rise of gangsterism and charrismo: labor violence and the postrevolutionary Mexican state / Marcos Aguila and Jeffrey Bortz -- 9. Political practice, everyday political violence, and electoral processes during the neoliberal period in Mexico / Kathy Powell -- 10. Violence and reconstitution in Mexican indigenous communities / John Gledhill -- 11. New violence, insecurity, and the State: comparative reflections on Latin America and Mexico / Kees Koonings.

ISBN:

0804781583 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804781589 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)764364287

LCCN:

2011052267

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)