Peasants, Politics, and the Formation of Mexico's National State Guerrero, 1800-1857

"This is an outstanding book. I know of no other work on the first half of the nineteenth century for Mexico (or elsewhere in Latin America, for that matter) that so consistently addresses the complexities and multiple facets of postcolonial political conflict. The author takes rural people seriously, and shows convincingly how they affected and were affected by state formation and attempts to build national policies."Florencia E. Mallon, University of Wisconsin, Madison "[Peasants, Politics, and the Formation of Mexico's National State] tell[s] us a great deal about the so-called Mexican Dark Ages and show[s] that the decades of apparent chaos and conflict were based on popular participation in state builing."Mexican StudiesGuardino, Peter F. is the author of 'Peasants, Politics, and the Formation of Mexico's National State Guerrero, 1800-1857', published 2002 under ISBN 9780804741903 and ISBN 0804741905.