Peasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru

by Florencia E. Mallon

Book Overview

Peasant and Nation offers a major new statement on the making of national politics. Comparing the popular political cultures and discourses of postcolonial Mexico and Peru, Florencia Mallon provides a groundbreaking analysis of their effect on the evolution of these nation states. As political history from a variety of subaltern perspectives, the book takes seriously the history of peasant thought and action and the complexity of community politics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520085051
• ISBN13: 9780520085053
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A must read for anyone interested in nationalism

Mallon's theory of "peasant nationalism" is thought provoking for anyone interested in the construction of nationalism. Her work is a great example of how comparative historical research in Latin America can yield new insights for historians in other fields. Not only is her work instructive for those interested in popular conceptions of what it means to be in a nation, but her narrative is well written and engaging