Peasant and nation : the making of postcolonial Mexico and Peru / Florencia E Mallon.

"A Centennial book"--anteportada.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 331-450) e índice.

Political history from below: hegemony, the state, and nationalist discourses --

Part 1: Indigenous communities, national guards, and the liberal revolution in the Sierra Norte de Puebla: -- Contested citizenship (1): liberals, conservatives, and indigenous national guards, 1850-1867 -- The conflictual construction of community: gender, ethnicity, and hegemony -- Alternative nationalisms and hegemonic discourses: peasant visions of the nation --

Part 2: Communal hegemony and nationalist discourses in Mexico and Peru: -- Contested citizenship (2): regional political cultures, peasant visions of the nation, and the liberal revolution in Morelos -- From citizen to other: national resistance, State formation, and peasant visions of the nation in Junín -- Communal hegemony and alternative nationalisms: historical contingencies and limiting cases --

Part 3: Alternative national projects and the consolidation of the state: -- The intricacies of coercion: popular political cultures, repression, and the failure of hegemony -- Whose bones are they, anyway, and who gets to decide? Local intellectuals, hegemony, and counterhegemony in national politics -- Popular nationalism and statemaking in Mexico and Peru: the deconstruction of community and popular culture.