The University of Arizona Press

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’s 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.