Landscaping Indigenous Mexico: The Liberal State and Capitalism in the Purépecha Highlands - Couverture rigide

Pérez-Montesinos, Fernando

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ISBN 10 : 1477330992 ISBN 13 : 9781477330999

Editeur : University of Texas Press, 2025

Synopsis

A history of the Purépecha people's survival amid environmental and political changes. Landscapes are more than geological formations; they are living records of human struggles. Landscaping Indigenous Mexico unearths the history of Juátarhu, an Indigenous landscape shaped and nurtured by the Purépecha—a formidable Mesoamerican people whose power once rivaled that of the Aztecs. Although cataclysmic changes came with European contact and colonization, Juátarhu’s enduring agroecology continued to sustain local life through centuries of challenges. Contesting essentialist narratives of Indigenous penury, Pérez Montesinos shows how Purépechas thrived after Mexican independence in 1821, using Juátarhu’s diverse agroecology to negotiate continued autonomy amid waves of national economic and political upheaval. After 1870, however, autonomy waned under the pressure of land privatization policies, state intervention, and industrial logging. On the eve of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, Purépechas stood at a critical juncture: Would the Indigenous landscape endure or succumb? Offering a fresh perspective on a seemingly well-worn subject, Pérez Montesinos argues that Michoacán, long considered a peripheral revolutionary region, saw one of the era’s most radical events: the destruction of the liberal order and the timber capitalism of Juátarhu.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Fernando Pérez Montesinos is an associate professor at UCLA. A historian of nineteenth-century Mexico and the Mexican Revolution, his work includes the edited volume El ascenso maderista y el fin del régimen porfiriano. He is a senior editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Texas Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• ISBN 10: 1477330992
• ISBN 13: 9781477330999
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible