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Laboratory of the Revolution is the first-ever professional study of Tomás Garrido Canabal, revolutionary strongman of Tabasco state between 1922 and 1935. He dreamed of turning Tabasco—an isolated backwater and the quintessential “banana republic”—into a beacon of progress. Garrido’s recipe for that progress consisted of ridding the state of religion, prohibiting alcohol and other vices, championing science, and boosting agriculture and ranching. He only fell from power when a shoot-out in Tabasco furnished the pretext for subordinating the state to President Lázaro Cárdenas’s centrally governed political machine, the forerunner of Mexico’s long-lived one-party system.

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Author:   Terry Rugeley ,  Carlos Martínez Assad
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   05
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.706kg
ISBN:  

9789004737150

ISBN 10:   9004737154
Pages:   348
Publication Date:   09 October 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   Spanish

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Tables Translator’s Preface Chronology Principal Organizations by Acronym   Introduction 1 Anticlerical Radicalism  1 Jacobinism and Bolshevism  2 Influence  3 The ICAM in Tabasco  4 The Tip of the Spear  5 The Fiercest Enemy  6 The Land without God  7 Variations on the Same Theme  8 Combating Fanaticism  9 Anecdotes  10 Repercussions  11 Garrido’s Path 2 Education without Dogma  1 The Modern School in Tabasco  2 Objectives of the New Education  3 The Rationalist School in Operation  4 Against Centralized Education  5 In the Time of Revolutionary Psychology  6 The Students Take Sides 3 The Enclave Economy  1 Green Gold  2 A Unique Sort of Agrarian Reform 4 The Puritan Modernizer  1 The Cooperative Republic  2 The Anti-vice Campaign  3 Socialism without Marx 5 Politics, Tabasco-Style  1 Garrido’s Power  2 An Impregnable Bastion  3 The Ligas de Resistencia  4 The Emissary of Revolutionary Thought  5 Regional versus Central Government  6 Anatomy of the Camisas Rojas  7 Women as the Foundation of Garridista Society 6 In the Eyes of His Enemies  1 Protect Our Traditions!  2 Dimas, the Good Thief  3 Anticlericalism  4 Rationalist Teaching  5 Ligas de Resistencia  6 The Camisas Rosas  7 The Black Legend  8 And Even the Victor Is More Honored  9 An Eye for an Eye  10 The Crusades 7 The Confrontation  1 Bloody Sunday in Coyoacán  2 The Field of Battle Is Chosen  3 The Leader’s Fall 8 Tabasco Must Be Mexicanized  1 In the Shadow of Don Tomás  2 “And the Gates of Hell Will Not Prevail …”  3 National Integration 9 The Voluntary Exile of Garrido Canabal  1 The Leader of the Southeast  2 Another Life  3 In Garrido’s Absence  4 Before and After  5 The New World  6 Internal Politics  7 National Politics: Petroleum  8 The Rebellion of Saturnino Cedillo  9 Quarrel with the Catholic Church  10 The Presidential Succession of 1940  11 Economy and Agrarian Reform  12 The Return  13 Death Comes for the Man of Action  14 El Vencedor Glossary of Spanish Terms Bibliography Index

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Carlos Martínez Assad is Professor Emeritus of the Universidad Autónoma Nacional de México. In addition to his classic El laboratorio de la Revolución: El Tabasco garridista, he has published extensively on matters of regional and national history. A recognized authority on the Mexican Revolution as well as Mexico’s extensive Lebanese community, he has garnered many awards in his career, including a John Simon Guggrenheim grant and the Universidad Nacional’s award for the promotion of research. Terry Rugeley, now retired as Professor of Mexican and Latin American History, is founder and CEO of Fountain Pen Translations LLC. His many book-length publications include The River People in Flood Time: The Civil Wars in Tabasco, Spoiler of Empires (Stanford, 2014) and Epic Mexico: A History from Earliest Times (Oklahoma, 2020).

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