{"product_id":"9780804784474","title":"Violence, Coercion, and State-Making in Twentieth-Century Mexico: The Other Half of the Centaur","description":"Mexico is currently undergoing a crisis of violence and insecurity that poses serious threats to democratic transition and rule of law. This is the first book to put these developments in the context of post-revolutionary state-making in Mexico and to show that violence in Mexico is not the result of state failure, but of state-making. While most accounts of politics and the state in recent decades have emphasized processes of transition, institutional conflict resolution, and neo-liberal reform, this volume lays out the increasingly important role of violence and coercion by a range of state and non-state armed actors. Moreover, by going beyond the immediate concerns of contemporary Mexico, this volume pushes us to rethink longterm processes of state-making and recast influential interpretations of the so-called golden years of PRI rule. \u003ci\u003eViolence, Coercion, and State-Making in Twentieth-Century Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that received wisdom has long prevented the concerted and systematic study of violence and coercion in state-making, not only during the last decades, but throughout the post-revolutionary period. The Mexican state was built much more on violence and coercion than has been acknowledged—until now.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118363721968,"sku":"9780804784474","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780804784474_p0.jpg?v=1763738434","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780804784474","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}