The laboratory of the revolution : Tabasco under Tomás Garrido Canabál, 1922-1935 / Carlos Martínez Assad ; translated by Terry Rugeley.

Author/creator Martínez Assad, Carlos R. author.
Other author Rugeley, Terry, 1956- translator.
Format Book
PublicationLeiden : Brill, [2025].
Copyright Date©2026
Descriptionxxi, 324 pages : illustrations, tables, map ; 24 cm.
Subjects

Uniform titleLaboratorio de la revolución. English
SeriesCritical Latin America ;
Critical Latin America ; vol. 5. UNAUTHORIZED
Abstract Laboratory of the Revolution is the first-ever professional study of Tomás Garrido Canabal, revolutionary strongman of Tabasco state between 1922 and 1935. He dreamed of turning Tabasco-an isolated backwater and the quintessential "banana republic"-into a beacon of progress. Garrido's recipe for that progress consisted of ridding the state of religion, prohibiting alcohol and other vices, championing science, and boosting agriculture and ranching. He only fell from power when a shoot-out in Tabasco furnished the pretext for subordinating the state to President Lázaro Cárdenas's centrally governed political machine, the forerunner of Mexico's long-lived one-party system.
General noteTranslated from the Spanish.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formTranslations
ISBN9789004737150
ISBN9004737154

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