Mexican Army PRI Civil-Military Relations Revolution Mexico History Rath

by Thomas Rath

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MYTHS OF DEMILITARIZATION IN POSTREVOLUTIONARY MEXICO, 1920-1960 by Thomas Rath Published by University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2013. Very good trade paperback. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. 8vo, indexed, 244 pages. A deeply researched study of the Mexican army s uneven retreat from political power following the Revolution, historian Thomas Rath s work draws on newly available military, intelligence, and diplomatic archives to challenge the standard narrative of Mexico s postrevolutionary demilitarization. Rath examines military education, conscription, veteran policy, and popular protest to show that the Institutional Revolutionary Party s (PRI) celebrated depoliticization of the armed forces was, in practice, far more protracted and conflict-ridden than official history allowed, with civilian governments continuing to deploy troops for political suppression while officers retained significant provincial influence and engaged in corruption. The book s significance extends well beyond military historiography: by reassessing the PRI regime s claims to stability and legitimacy after 1940, Rath reframes core debates in twentieth-century Mexican state formation, civil-military relations, and the long institutional roots of police militarization that remain visible in Mexico today, including the army s later suppression of student and guerrilla movements in the 1960s and 1970s. Scholars of Latin American history have praised the book s foundation i

• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Year: 2013
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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