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Archival and Scholarly Resources in Oaxaca City for Mexico's Reorganization Period, 1917-1929

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Daniel Newcomer
Daniel Newcomer*
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Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas
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The historiography of the Mexican revolution has largely overlooked the period of the country's reorganization. Between the writing of the 1917 constitution and the creation of the Partido Nacional Revolucionario (PNR) in 1929, the revolutionary government centralized its power, institutionalized its political system, and achieved widespread legitimacy for its social and economic program, referred to as the Official Revolution. The five major syntheses of the revolution that appeared during the 1980s added important insight to the conflict and generally emphasized the struggle's regional aspects. Although a trend toward neopopulism appeared, these scholars tended to argue that the revolution exhibited considerable local variety as opposed to traditional accounts of a nationally consistent agrarian uprising. These works also seriously damaged what has become known as the “careerist” school, which portrayed lower-class participation in the conflict as manipulated by power-hungry, revolutionary elites. Nevertheless, few authors extended the revolution's periodization beyond 1924. Thus, no study has yet fully analyzed the dynamics of Mexico's reorganization. Neither has a volume emerged that appreciates this process at the local level.

Type
Archival Report
Information
The Americas , Volume 54 , Issue 4 , April 1998 , pp. 575 - 583
Copyright
Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1998

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References

1 Those syntheses include, chronologically, Ruiz, Ramón Eduardo, The Great Rebellion: Mexico, 1905–1924 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1980)Google Scholar; Tobler, Hans Werner, Die mexikanische Revolution: Gesellschaftlicher Wandel und politischer Umbruch, 1876–1940 (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1984)Google Scholar; Guerra, François-Xavier, Le Mexique. De l’ancien régime à la Revolución, 2 vols. (Paris, 1985)Google Scholar; Knight, Alan, The Mexican Revolution, 2 vols. (London: Cambridge University Press, 1986)Google Scholar; Hart, John Mason, Revolutionary Mexico: The Coming and Process of the Mexican Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987).Google Scholar

2 The following is a summary of the three index volumes relevant to 1917–1929 along with the thematic emphasis in each box.

Volume II, 1917–1923

Caja 11, 1917–1918: Function of local ayuntamientos; combination of municipalities; hospitals; banditry. Caja 12, 1918–1919: Complaints to municipal authorities; government-sponsored celebrations. Caja 13,1918–1919: Municipal elections, 1919. Caja 14,1919: Municipal election results, cont; state census; complaints about military. Caja 15, 1920: State officials; municipal elections and personnel movement; agrarian conflicts; banditry. Caja 16, 1921: Banditry; election results. Caja 17, 1921: Division of municipalities for local elections; personnel movement. Caja 18, 1921: Agrarian conflicts; banditry; municipal elections. Caja 19,1922: 1922 state constitutional reforms; liquor licensing. Caja 20, 1922–1923: Foreign officials; ayuntamientos.

Volume III, 1923–1926

Caja 21,1923: Municipal elections; anti-clericalism. Caja 22,1923: State and local elections. Caja 23, 1923: Municipal elections; labor. Caja 24, 1924: State legislature; municipal elections; De la Huerta rebellion. Caja 25, 1924: Education; municipal elections; public celebrations. Caja 26, 1925: Municipal elections; banditry. Caja 27,1925: Municipal elections. Caja 28,1925: Complaints to state government; banditry. Caja 29,1925–1926: Agrarian complaints; municipal elections. Caja 30, 1926: Socialist Party; state officials; municipal elections; banditry.

Volume IV, 1926–1930

Caja 31,1926: Federal elections; Cristero conflict; armed groups. Caja 32,1926: Cristero conflict. Caja 33, 1926: Municipal elections. Caja 34, 1926: Municipal elections; highway construction; village plagues. Caja 35, 1927–1928: Socialist Party; Armed groups; priests. Caja 36, 1928: Municipal elections; complaints against police. Caja 37, 1928: Assassination of Alvaro Obregón; municipal elections; federation of Obreros and Campesinos. Caja 38, 1928: Municipal elections; Catholic subversion. Caja 39, 1.929: Cost of living reports, Oaxaca City. Caja 40, 1929: Liquor; highway construction; banditry. Caja 41, 1929: Municipal elections; ayuntamientos.

3 See Caja 3318, expediente 23:3318 (723.7), Santa María Ixcotel; and Caja 3319, expediente 23:3319 (723.17), San Lorenzo Cacaotepec, ARA.