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Acknowledgements

I wish to thank the editors of this dossier, Tanalís Padilla and Louise Walker, for their comments and suggestions, and Anndell Quintero for her assistance.

Notes

 1. Stephen R. Niblo, Mexico in the 1940s: Modernity, Politics, and Corruption, Wilmington, Scholarly Resources, 1999, p. xvii.

 2. Alfonso Reyes, Obras Completas, Vol. XIII, Mexico City, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1997, p. 182.

 3. There are too many works to attempt a list. Examples, with relevant variations, would be the works of Arnaldo Córdova and the Historia de la Revolución Mexicana edited by the Colegio de México.

 4. Alexander S. Dawson, First World Dreams: Mexico Since 1989, London, Zed Books, 2006.

 5. Mary Kay Vaughan and Stephen E. Lewis (eds), The Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920–1940, Durham, Duke UP, 2006; Julio Moreno, Yankee Don't Go Home! Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920–1950, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2003; Gilbert M. Joseph, Anne Rubenstein, and Eric Zolov (eds), Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico since 1940, Durham, Duke UP, 2001; Gilbert M. Joseph, Catherine LeGrand, and Ricardo Donato Salvatore, Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.–Latin American Relations, Durham, Duke UP, 1998; Eric Zolov, Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1999; Mary Kay Vaughan, Cultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1930–1940, Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 1997; and Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniel Nugent, (eds), Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico, Durham, Duke UP, 1994.

 6. Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniela Spenser (eds), In from the Cold: Latin America's New Encounter with the Cold War, Durham, Duke UP, 2008; and Seth Fein, ‘Myths of Cultural Imperialism and Nationalism in Golden Age Mexican Cinema’, in Joseph, Rubenstein and Zolov (eds), Fragments of a Golden Age, pp. 159–98.

 7. Wayne A. Cornelius, Subnational Politics and Democratization in Mexico, U.S.-Mexico Contemporary Perspectives Series, 13, La Jolla, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1999; Jeffrey Rubin, Decentering the Regime: Ethnicity, Radicalism, and Democracy in Juchitán, Mexico, Durham, Duke UP, 1997; Alan Knight, ‘Cardenismo: Juggernaut or Jalopy?’, Journal of Latin American Studies 26:1, 1994, pp. 73–107; Claudio Lomnitz, Exits from the Labyrinth: Culture and Ideology in the Mexican National Space, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1992; Alan Knight, ‘Revolutionary Project, Recalcitrant People: Mexico, 1910–40’, in Jaime O. Rodríguez (ed.), The Revolutionary Process in Mexico: Essays on Political and Social Change, 1880–1940, Irvine, University of California, Los Angeles, 1990; and Judith Friedlander, Being Indian in Hueyapan: A Study of Forced Identity in Contemporary Mexico, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1975. See the works of Paul Gillingham, Thomas Rath, Benjamin Smith, Richard Boyer and some of the authors in this issue.

 8. Robert Francis Alegre, ‘Contesting the “Mexican Miracle”: Railway Men and Women and the Struggle for Democracy in Mexico, 1943–1959,’ Ph.D. Dissertation, New Brunswick, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, 2007; Vania Markarian, ‘Debating Tlatelolco: Thirty Years of Public Debates About the Mexican Student Movement of 1968’, in Jim Downs and Jennifer Manion (eds), Taking Back the Academy: History as Activism, New York and London, Routledge, 2004; and Elisa Servin, Ruptura y oposición: El movimiento henriquista, 1945–1954, Mexico City, Cal y Arena, 2001.

 9. ‘Declaración de la Selva Lacandona’, http://palabra.ezln.org.mx/, accessed 1 October 2011.

10. Tanalís Padilla, Rural Resistance in the Land of Zapata: The Jaramillista Movement and the Myth of the Pax Priísta, 1940–1962, Durham, Duke UP, 2008; Donald Clark Hodges, and Daniel Ross Gandy, Mexico under Siege: Popular Resistance to Presidential Despotism, London and New York, Zed Books, 2002; and Sergio Aguayo Quezada, La Charola: Una Historia de los Servicios de Inteligencia en México, Mexico City, Grijalbo, 2001.

11. Tanalís Padilla, Rural Resistance in the Land of Zapata; Elaine Carey, Plaza of Sacrifices: Gender, Power, and Terror in 1968 Mexico, Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 2005; and Lessie Jo Frazier and Deborah Cohen, ‘Mexico ‘68: Defining the Space of the Movement, Heroic Masculinity in the Prison, and “Women” in the Streets’, Hispanic American Historical Review 83: 4, 2003, pp. 617–660.

12. Álvaro Vázquez Mantecón, ‘Nuevas historias oficiales: el caso del Memorial del 68 en México’, manuscript.

13. Ariel Rodríguez Kuri, ‘Los primeros días: Una explicación de los orígenes inmediatos del movimiento estudiantil de 1968’, Historia Mexicana 53:1, 2003, pp. 179–228.

14. In this regard, the work of José Revueltas deserves more attention from intellectual historians. See José Revueltas, Los errores, Mexico City, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1964.

15. Gilberto Guevara Niebla, 1968: Largo camino a la democracia, First ed., Mexico City, Cal y Arena, 2008.

16. Julio Scherer García, Carlos Monsiváis and Marcelino García Barragán, Parte de guerra, Tlatelolco 1968: Documentos del General Marcelino García Barragán: Los hechos y la historia, Mexico City, Nuevo Siglo/Aguilar, 1999.

17. Esclarecimiento y sanción a los delitos del pasado durante el sexenio 2000–2006: Compromisos quebrantados y justicia aplazada, Mexico City, Comité 68 Pro Libertades Democráticas-Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos, A.C.-Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez, A.C.-Fundación Diego Lucero. See Cedillo's article.

18. Sergio Aguayo Quezada, 1968: Los Archivos de la violencia. Mexico City, Grijalbo, Reforma, 1998.

19. Aguayo Quezada, La Charola.

20. James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, New Haven, Yale UP, 1998.

21. James C. Scott, Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts, New Haven, Yale UP, 1990.

22. Scott, Seeing Like a State.

23. Paul Gillingham, ‘Maximino's Bulls: Popular Protest after the Mexican Revolution, 1940–1952’, Past and Present 206, 2010, pp. 175–211.

24. Scott, Seeing Like a State.

25. Aguayo Quezada, Los archivos de la violencia.

26. Aguayo Quezada, Los archivos de la violencia.

27. Carlos Tello Díaz, La rebelión de las cañadas, Mexico City, Aguilar, León y Cal, 1995.

28. Carlo Ginzburg, The Judge and the Historian: Marginal Notes on a Late-Twentieth-Century Miscarriage of Justice, translated by Antony Shugaar, London, Verso, 1999.

29. See for recent examples Aaron W. Navarro, Political Intelligence and the Creation of Modern Mexico, 1938–1954, University Park, Pennsylvania State UP, 2010; and Benjamin T. Smith, Pistoleros and Popular Movements: the Politics of State Formation in Postrevolutionary Oaxaca, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2009.

30. Aguayo Quezada, Los archivos de la violencia.

31. Navarro, Political Intelligence; Jacinto Rodríguez Munguía, La otra guerra secreta: Los archivos prohibidos de la prensa y el poder, Mexico City, Random House, Mondadori, S.A., 2007; Julio Scherer García and Carlos Monsiváis, Tiempo de saber: Prensa y poder en México, Mexico City, Aguilar, 2003; and Aguayo Quezada, La Charola.

32. Anon, La verdad negada: Informe histórico sobre la guerra sucia del estado mexicano entre los años 60's a los 80's, Mexico City, Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de los Movimientos Sociales, 2009; Louise Elizabeth Walker, ‘The End of Miracles: Crisis and the Middle Classes in Mexico City, 1971–1988’, Ph.D. Diss., Yale University, 2008; Padilla, Rural Resistance; and David Cilia Olmos and Enrique González Ruiz, Testimonios de la guerra sucia, Mexico City, Tierra Roja, 2006.

33. Thomas Rath, ‘Army, State and Nation in postrevolutionary Mexico 1920–1958’, Ph.D. Diss., Columbia University, 2009.