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The Mexican Revolution gave rise to the Mexican nation-state as we know it today. Rural revolutionaries took up arms against the D铆az dictatorship in support of agrarian reform, in defense of their political autonomy, or inspired by a nationalist desire to forge a new Mexico. However, in the Gran Nayar, a rugged and heavily Indigenous expanse of mountains and canyons in the far west of Mexico, the story was more complex. The region鈥檚 four Indian peoples 鈥� the Wix谩ritari (Huichols), N谩ayarite (Coras), O鈥檇am (Tepehuanos) and Mexicaneros 鈥� are known for being among the least 鈥渁ssimilated鈥� of all Mexico鈥檚 Indigenous groups, and are often assumed to have had no knowledge of the upheaval that convulsed the rest of Mexico between 1910 and 1940. However, based on extensive archival research and years of fieldwork, Morris shows that the peoples of the Gran Nayar fought both for and against a nationwide Revolution that they experienced locally as a clash between practitioners of subsistence agriculture and promoters of capitalist development; between rival Indian generations and political factions; and between opposing visions of the world, of religion, and of daily life. These confrontations resulted in severe defeats for the government鈥檚 regional state-building programmes, and had significant and often counterintuitive consequences both for local people, and for the Mexican nation as a whole, that can still be felt today.

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Dr Nathaniel Morris |听 Leverhulme Early Career Fellow | 香港六合彩中特网 History Department

| Professor of Latin American History |听 Warwick University

| Lecturer in the History of Americas | University of Edinburgh

by Dr Nathaniel Morris is published by University of Arizona Press

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Dr Nathaniel Morris - academic profile

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Courtesy of University of Arizona Press and N Morris