Format:
1 online resource (342 pages)
ISBN:
9780804784573
Content:
Waking from the Dream explains how the Mexican middle classes transformed their country after 1968, as the once-touted economic "Miracle" was replaced by new ideas of capitalism and the once-powerful Party of the Institutional Revolution was swept away by electoral democracy.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Middle Classes and the Crisis of the Institutional Revolution -- Part I. Upheavals -- 1. Rebel Generation: Being a Middle-Class Radical, 1971-1976 -- 2. Cacerolazo: Rumors, Gossip, and the Conservative Middle Classes, 1973-1976 -- Part II. The Debt Economy -- 3. The Power of Petróleo: Black Gold and Middle-Class Noir, 1977-1981 -- 4. Consumer-Citizens: Inflation, Credit, and Taxing the Middle Classes, 1973-1985 -- Part III. Fault Lines of Neoliberalism -- 5. La Crisis: On the Front Lines of Austerity and Apertura, 1981-1988 -- 6. Earthquake: Civil Society in the Rubble of Tlatelolco,1985-1988 -- Conclusion: The Debris of a Miracle -- Appendix: Quantifying the Middle Classes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804781510
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780804781510
Language:
English
Keywords:
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