A Brief History of Violence in Mexico by Pablo Piccato, Quent... - 9781469689937

A Brief History of Violence in MexicoAuthor(s): Pablo Piccato, Quentin Pope\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press, United States\nImprint: The University of North Carolina Press\nISBN-13: 9781469689937, 978-1469689937\nSynopsis\nPolitical rhetoric often portrays Mexico as an inherently violent nation. Available now for the first time in English, Pablo Piccato's essential work cuts through the noise to contextualize violence as a historical phenomenon. Piccato shows us that violence is not unique to Mexico but, just as anywhere else, has erupted there in many forms. Attending to multiple histories of violence, Piccato reveals how violence emerges as a resource that people mobilize to various endsnot an uncontrollable impulse or the simple result of corrupt political power.\n\nTraversing the twentieth century through the lens of violence, Piccato interprets and draws connections between violence arising from revolution, agrarian and religious struggles, g.