{"product_id":"the-eagle-and-the-virgin-nation-and-cultural-revolution-in-mexico-1920-1940-paperback","title":"The Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Kay Vaughan\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eStephen Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the fighting of the Mexican Revolution died down in 1920, the national government faced the daunting task of building a cohesive nation. It had to establish control over a disparate and needy population and prepare the country for global economic competition. As part of this effort, the government enlisted the energy of artists and intellectuals in cultivating a distinctly Mexican identity. It devised a project for the incorporation of indigenous peoples and oversaw a vast, innovative program in the arts. \u003ci\u003eThe Eagle and the Virgin\u003c\/i\u003e examines the massive nation-building project Mexico undertook between 1920 and 1940.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors explore the nation-building efforts of the government, artists, entrepreneurs, and social movements; their contradictory, often conflicting intersection; and their inevitably transnational nature. Scholars of political and social history, communications, and art history describe the creation of national symbols, myths, histories, and heroes to inspire patriotism and transform workers and peasants into efficient, productive, gendered subjects. They analyze the aesthetics of nation building made visible in murals, music, and architecture; investigate state projects to promote health, anticlericalism, and education; and consider the role of mass communications, such as cinema and radio, and the impact of road building. They discuss how national identity was forged among social groups, specifically political Catholics, industrial workers, middle-class women, and indigenous communities. Most important, the volume weighs in on debates about the tension between the eagle (the modernizing secular state) and the Virgin of Guadalupe (the Catholic defense of faith and morality). It argues that despite bitter, violent conflict, the symbolic repertoire created to promote national identity and memory making eventually proved capacious enough to allow the eagle and the virgin to coexist peacefully.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors. Adrian Bantjes, Katherine Bliss, María Teresa Fernández, Joy Elizabeth Hayes, Joanne Hershfield, Stephen E. Lewis, Claudio Lomnitz, Rick A. López, Sarah M. Lowe, Jean Meyer, James Oles, Patrice Olsen, Desmond Rochfort, Michael Snodgrass, Mary Kay Vaughan, Marco Velázquez, Wendy Waters, Adriana Zavala\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteeped in a generation of new cultural and transnational analysis of state formation and popular expression, The Eagle and the Virgin\" raises the bar for studies of nation building and cultural politics in postrevolutionary Mexico. Particularly impressive is the volume's sensitive analysis of contests over religious culture and symbols, its gendered understanding of state formation, and its handsomely illustrated treatment of the development of a Mexican revolutionary aesthetic.\"--Gilbert M. Joseph, coeditor of \"The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Kay Vaughan is Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her books include \u003ci\u003eCultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1930-1940\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a coeditor of the journal \u003ci\u003eHispanic American Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen E. Lewis is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Chico. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ambivalent Revolution: Forging State and Nation in Chiapas, 1910-1945\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 396\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.24 x 6.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 13, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52618722050355,"sku":"9780822336686","price":71.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/YUtBdDlROTZlYXRLbDlrdVM5eUtSQT09.webp?v=1761908249","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-eagle-and-the-virgin-nation-and-cultural-revolution-in-mexico-1920-1940-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}