The Laboratory of the Revolution : Tabasco under Tomás Garrido Canabál, 1922-1935 /
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...
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Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2026.
Series:
Critical Latin America ;
5.
Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
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Call Number: BL245
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Translator's Preface
- Chronology
- Principal Organizations by Acronym
- Introduction
- 1 Anticlerical Radicalism
- 1 Jacobinism and Bolshevism
- 2 Influence
- 3 The ICAM in Tabasco
- 4 The Tip of the Spear
- 5 The Fiercest Enemy
- 6 The Land without God
- 7 Variations on the Same Theme
- 8 Combating Fanaticism
- 9 Anecdotes
- 10 Repercussions
- 11 Garrido's Path
- 2 Education without Dogma
- 1 The Modern School in Tabasco
- 2 Objectives of the New Education
- 3 The Rationalist School in Operation
- 4 Against Centralized Education
- 5 In the Time of Revolutionary Psychology
- 6 The Students Take Sides
- 3 The Enclave Economy
- 1 Green Gold
- 2 A Unique Sort of Agrarian Reform
- 4 The Puritan Modernizer
- 1 The Cooperative Republic
- 2 The Anti-vice Campaign
- 3 Socialism without Marx
- 5 Politics, Tabasco-Style
- 1 Garrido's Power
- 2 An Impregnable Bastion
- 3 The Ligas de Resistencia
- 4 The Emissary of Revolutionary Thought
- 5 Regional versus Central Government
- 6 Anatomy of the Camisas Rojas
- 7 Women as the Foundation of Garridista Society
- 6 In the Eyes of His Enemies
- 1 Protect Our Traditions!
- 2 Dimas, the Good Thief
- 3 Anticlericalism
- 4 Rationalist Teaching
- 5 Ligas de Resistencia
- 6 The Camisas Rosas
- 7 The Black Legend
- 8 And Even the Victor Is More Honored
- 9 An Eye for an Eye
- 10 The Crusades
- 7 The Confrontation
- 1 Bloody Sunday in Coyoacán
- 2 The Field of Battle Is Chosen
- 3 The Leader's Fall
- 8 Tabasco Must Be Mexicanized
- 1 In the Shadow of Don Tomás
- 2 "And the Gates of Hell Will Not Prevail ..."
- 3 National Integration
- 9 The Voluntary Exile of Garrido Canabal
- 1 The Leader of the Southeast
- 2 Another Life
- 3 In Garrido's Absence
- 4 Before and After
- 5 The New World
- 6 Internal Politics
- 7 National Politics: Petroleum
- 8 The Rebellion of Saturnino Cedillo
- 9 Quarrel with the Catholic Church
- 10 The Presidential Succession of 1940
- 11 Economy and Agrarian Reform
- 12 The Return
- 13 Death Comes for the Man of Action
- 14 El Vencedor
- Glossary of Spanish Terms
- Bibliography
- Index.