Incluye referencias bibliográficas.

Introduction: the paradoxes of revolution / by Paul Gillingham and Benjamin T. Smith -- The end of the Mexican Revolution? From Cárdenas to Avila Camacho, 1937-1941 / by Alan Knight -- Intransigence, anticommunism, and reconciliation : church/state relations in transition / by Roberto Blancarte -- Camouflaging the state : the army and the limits of hegemony in PRIísta Mexico, 1940-1960 / by Thomas Rath -- Strongmen and state weakness / by Rogelio Hernández Rodríguez -- Tropical passion in the desert : Gonzalo N. Santos and local elections in Northern San Luis Potosí, 1943-1958 / by Wil G. Pansters -- "We don't have arms, but we do have balls" : fraud, violence, and popular agency in elections / by Paul Gillingham -- The Golden Age of charrismo : workers, braceros, and the political machinery of postrevolutionary Mexico / by Michael Snodgrass -- The forgotten Jaramillo : building a social base of support for authoritarianism in rural Mexico / by Gladys McCormick -- Community, crony capitalism, and fortress conservation in Mexican forests / by Christopher R. Boyer -- Advocate or cacica? Guadalupe Urzúa Flores : modernizer and peasant political leader in Jalisco / by María Teresa Fernández Aceves -- Building a state on the cheap : taxation, social movements, and politics / by Benjamin T. Smith -- The end of revolutionary anthropology? : notes on indigenismo / by Guillermo de la Peña -- Cooling to cinema and warming to television : state mass media policy, 1940-1964 / by Andrew Paxman -- Pistoleros, Ley Fuga, and uncertainty in public debates about murder in twentieth-century Mexico / by Pablo Piccato -- Rural education, political radicalism, and normalista identity in Mexico after 1940 / by Tanalís Padilla -- The rise of a "national student problem" in 1956 / by Jaime Pensado -- Final comments: Contextualizing the regime? ": what 1938-1968 tells us about Mexico, power, and Latin America's twentieth century / by Jeffrey W. Rubin.