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Landscaping Indigenous Mexico: The Liberal State and Capitalism in the Purépecha Highlands

Autor Fernando Pérez-Montesinos
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 mar 2025
A history of the Purépecha people's survival amid environmental and political changes.
Landscapes are more than geological formations; they are living records of human struggles. Landscaping Indigenous Mexico unearths the history of Juátarhu, an Indigenous landscape shaped and nurtured by the Purépecha—a formidable Mesoamerican people whose power once rivaled that of the Aztecs. Although cataclysmic changes came with European contact and colonization, Juátarhu’s enduring agroecology continued to sustain local life through centuries of challenges.
Contesting essentialist narratives of Indigenous penury, Pérez Montesinos shows how Purépechas thrived after Mexican independence in 1821, using Juátarhu’s diverse agroecology to negotiate continued autonomy amid waves of national economic and political upheaval. After 1870, however, autonomy waned under the pressure of land privatization policies, state intervention, and industrial logging. On the eve of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, Purépechas stood at a critical juncture: Would the Indigenous landscape endure or succumb? Offering a fresh perspective on a seemingly well-worn subject, Pérez Montesinos argues that Michoacán, long considered a peripheral revolutionary region, saw one of the era’s most radical events: the destruction of the liberal order and the timber capitalism of Juátarhu.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781477330999
ISBN-10: 1477330992
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 16 b&w photos, 12 tables, 3 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press

Notă biografică

Fernando Pérez Montesinos is an associate professor at UCLA. He was a contributor and coeditor of El Presente del Pasado, an online public history periodical dedicated to examining contemporary Mexican affairs through a historical lens. He is a senior editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review.

Cuprins

  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction. Landscaping Indigenous Michoacán: Ecology and Community, Liberalism and Capitalism in an Indigenous World, 1820–1920
  • Chapter 1. Making and Remaking the Indigenous Highlands, circa 7000 BC–AD 1820
  • Chapter 2. A Reliable and Resilient Landscape, 1800–1890
  • Chapter 3. The Tumultuous Origins of the Reparto Era, 1821–1867
  • Chapter 4. Contesting the Liberal Landscape, 1867–1875
  • Chapter 5. Land Concentrations and State Interventions, 1875–1890
  • Chapter 6. Capitalism Comes to the Uplands: Railroads Invade the Forests, 1890–1900
  • Chapter 7. Assaulting the Landscape: Timber Capitalism, 1900–1910
  • Epilogue. The Landscape Survives: Revolution Breaks Timber Capitalism, 1910–1920
  • Acknowledgments. My Village
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Recenzii

Equal parts natural history, agrarian epic, and dark capitalist parable, Landscaping Indigenous Mexico is an ambitious regional history of Mexican liberalism. It is, too, an impressive study of highland Michoacán, that land of smoldering fumaroles, pine-clad sierras, Purépecha pueblos, and lakes. Fernando Pérez Montesinos understands Michoacán’s past holistically, as the struggle of an ethnoscaped empire, Juátarhu, to survive conquest, insurgency, Liberal lawfare, and Porfirian timber capitalism. At stake, the power to landscape; to apply artifice freely to environment. This welcome longue durée account of Purépecha adaptation and alienation will force historians to rethink the relationship between ethnicity, the natural world, statebuilding, and capitalism in Mexico.

Focused on the Purépecha highlands, Pérez Montesinos has written an ambitious and lucid retelling of nineteenth-century Mexico that combines environmental perspectives with social and political history. Simultaneously a local, regional, and national story, the book reexamines key themes for Mexicanists, including how Indigenous people confronted independence, the rise of the national liberal state, and the development of commercial and industrial capitalism. With an eye for archival detail and without losing sight of the larger context, Landscaping Indigenous Mexico is a moving tribute to the resilience and adaptability of the agrarian landscapes that Mexico's Indigenous peoples built over centuries.

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A history of the Purépecha people's survival amid environmental and political changes.