Dictablanda

"[A]n invaluable resource for any nonspecialist seeking a rigorous and in-depth consideration of the topic. . . . A necessary addition to any respectable collection on Latin American history or 20th-century politics. . . . Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above." -- J. M. Rosenthal * Choice *
"This timely edited volume explores how the country that launched the first social revolution of the twentieth century became one of the world's most unequal and least democratic societies. Its regional and methodological sweep is impressive. Taken together, the eighteen chapters challenge the conventional wisdom in many ways. Graduate students in particular will mine this volume for promising leads; indeed, this book will likely inspire a wave of interdisciplinary research on the period." -- Stephen E. Lewis * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *
"Dictablanda is a must read for students of Mexican history and politics, and provides a useful synthesis of the emerging works on this under-researched period" -- Amelia M. Kiddle * Labour/Le Travail *
"Dictablanda's publication marks a watershed in the study of postrevolutionary Mexico. ... The collection's theoretical pluralism and thematic diversity defies easy characterization." -- Ben Fallaw * The Americas *
"[T]his volume brings together important case studies and contributes to a debate about how to conceptualize the era. It is essential reading for scholars of post-revolutionary Mexico." -- Louise E. Walker * Hispanic American Historical Review *
"Combining two generations of scholarship in the historiography of postrevolutionary Mexico, this collection of essays is a masterpiece. It constitutes the first-ever effort to study in detail the heyday of Mexico's official revolutionary party from the oil expropriation of 1938 to the government's massacre of student protesters at Mexico City's Tlatelolco Square in 1968....it should be required reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century Latin America." -- Jurgen Buchenau * The Historian *