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1 Front Matter Source: The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 79, No. 2, Special Issue: Mexico's New Cultural History: Una Lucha Libre, (May, 1999) Published by: Duke University Press Stable URL: Accessed: 02/07/ :21 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship. We work with the scholarly community to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon, and to build a common research platform that promotes the discovery and use of these resources. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.

2 79:2 May i999 The Hispanic American Historical Review

3 Editors Editors Gilbert M. Joseph and Stuart B. Schwartz Associate Editor Emilia Viotti da Costa Book Review Editor R. Douglas Cope Managing Editor Jonathan D. Amith Editorial Assistants Daniel M. Lanpher and Maritza U. Okata Board of Editors Kenneth J. Andrien, Ohio State University, Representative of CLAH (2002) Susan Deans-Smith, University of Texas, Austin (i999) Romana Falc6n, El Colegio de Mexico (2000) Stephen Haber, Stanford University (2003) Lyman L. Johnson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte (i999) Catherine LeGrand, McGill University (2003) Cheryl E. Martin, University of Texas, El Paso (2002) Robert E. McCaa, University of Minnesota (2002) David J. McCreery, Georgia State University (200I) Laura de Mello e Souza, Universidade de Sdo Paulo (2000) Hector Perez Brignoli, Universidad de Costa Rica (2000) Ricardo D. Salvatore, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (2000) Francisco A. Scarano, University of Wisconsin, Madison (2003) Enrique Tandeter, Universidad de Buenos Aires (2000) John Jay TePaske, Duke University, Representative of Duke University Press Hermes Tovar Pinz6n, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogoti (2000) Mary Kay Vaughan, University of Illinois, Chicago (2004) Barbara Weinstein, State University of New York, Stony Brook (2002) Ann M. Wightman, Wesleyan University (i999) Ralph Lee Woodward Jr., Tulane University (2000) Advisory Editors Woodrow Borah Inga Clendinnen John H. Coatsworth (2000) Asunci6n Lavrin (2002) John J. Johnson William B. Taylor (200I) Benjamin Keen Irving A. Leonard StanleyJ. Stein Emilia Viotti da Costa Cover and inside photographs by Lourdes Grobet

4 HAHR 79:2 May i999 Published in cooperation with the Conference on Latin American History of the American Historical Association Special Issue: Mexico's New Cultural History: 1,Una Lucha Libre? Introduction The Arena of Dispute SUSAN DEANS-SMITH and GILBERT M. JOSEPH 203 Articles The New Cultural History Comes to Old Mexico ERIC VAN YOUNG 2 II Imagining and the Cultural History of Nineteenth-Century WILLIAM E. FRENCH 249 Mexico Cultural Approaches to Peasant Politics in the Mexican Revolution MARY KAY VAUGHAN 269 Discussion and Debate Anything Goes: Mexico's "New" Cultural History STEPHEN HABER 309 Time on the Wheel: Cycles of Revisionism and the "New Cultural History" FLORENCIA E. MALLON 33I Putting the "Cult" in Culture SUSAN MIGDEN SOCOLOW 355 Barbarians at the Gate? A Few Remarks on the Politics of the "New Cultural History of Mexico" CLAUDIO LOMNITZ 367 Books Received 387 Announcement 395

5 Contributors SUSAN DEANS-SMITH is associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers: The Making of the Tobacco Monopoly in Bourbon Mexico (Austin, 1992) and various other studies on the social and economic history of eighteenth- and earlynineteenth-century Mexico. She is currently working on a book on the cultural politics of the Royal Academy of San Carlos tentatively entitled "Artists, Artisans, and the Royal Academy of San Carlos: Culture, Politics, and Power in Mexico City, i680-i82 I." GILBERT M. JOSEPH is professor of history and director of Latin American Studies at Yale University and editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review. His most recent books are Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval: Elite Politics and Rural Insurgency in Yucatdn, i876-i9i5 (Stanford, i996), coauthored with Allen Wells; and Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations (Durham, i998), coedited with Catherine C. LeGrand and Ricardo D. Salvatore. He is currently completing a study of rural strategies of survival and protest in nineteenthand twentieth-century Latin America with cultural anthropologist Patricia Pessar that is based on research in Mexico, Guatemala, Brazil, and the Dominican Republic. ERIC VAN YOUNG (Ph.D., Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1978) is professor of history and associate director of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego. In addition to a number of articles, book chapters, and edited volumes, he is the author of Haciend and Market in Eighteenth-Century Mexico: The Rural Economy of the Guadalajara Region, I i 8 io (Berkeley, i98 I); La crisis del orden colonial: estructuragraria y rebeliones populares en la Nueva Espafia, I750-i82I (Mexico City, 1992); and The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence and Ideology in Mexico, i 8i 0- I 82I (Stanford, forthcoming). He is currently beginning work on the history of psychiatry in Mexico. WILLIAM E. FRENCH is associate professor of history at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. He is the author of A Peaceful and

6 Working People: Manners, Morals, and Class Formation in Northern Mexico (Albuquerque, i996) and the coeditor, along with William Beezley and Cheryl Martin, of Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance: Public Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico (Wilmington, Del., 1994). He is currently working on a book about love letters, courtship, and the crimes of rapto and estupro in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico. MARY KAY VAUGHAN is professor of history and Latin American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of The State, Education, and Social Class in Mexico, i880-i928 (Dekalb, i982) and coeditor, with Heather Fowler-Salamini, of Women of the Mexican Countryside, i85o-iggo: Creating Spaces, Shaping Transitions (Tucson, 1994). Her recent book, Cultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, I930-I940 (Tucson, 1997) won the Latin American Studies Association Bryce Wood Award and the Herbert Eugene Bolton Prize from the Conference on Latin American History. She is currently crediting a reader on Mexico's "cultural revolution" with Stephen Lewis and beginning a study of Mexican education and culture from 1940 to i982. STEPHEN HABER is professor of history, director of the Social Science History Institute, and senior fellow of the Center for Economic Development and Policy Reform at Stanford University. He is also the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution. Haber's research focuses on the political economy of regulation in Latin America. His two most recent publications are "The Efficiency Consequences of Institutional Change: Financial Market Regulation and Industrial Productivity Growth in Brazil, i ," in Latin America and the World Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, eds. John. H. Coatsworth and Alan M. Taylor (Cambridge, Mass., i998); and, as coauthor with Armando Razo, "Political Instability and Economic Growth: Evidence from Revolutionary Mexico" (World Politics 51, 1998). FLORENCIA E. MALLON (Ph.D., Yale University, i980) teaches Latin American history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of The Defense of Community in Peru ' Central Highlands: Peasant Struggle and Capitalist Transition, i86o- I940 (Princeton, i983) and Peasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru (Berkeley, 1995), as well as numerous articles on agrarian, political, and social history. She is presently

7 working on the twentieth-century history of the Mapuche indigenous people and their relationship to the Chilean state. SUSAN MIGDEN SOCOLOW is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Latin American History at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. A colonial historian specializing in the Rio de la Plata, she is the author of The Merchants of Buenos Aires, i8io: Family and Commerce (Cambridge, 1978) and The Bureaucrats of Buenos Aires, I769- i 8io: Amor al Real Servicio (Durham, i987). With Louisa Schell Hoberman she has coedited Cities and Society in Colonial Latin America (Albuquerque, i986) and The Countryside in Colonial Latin America (Albuquerque, i996). Her most recent book, Women in Colonial Latin America, will be published in i999 by Cambridge University Press. CLAUDIO LOMNITZ holds a doctorate in anthropology from Stanford University (i987) and is currently professor of history and anthropology at the University of Chicago. His writings include Exits from the Labyrinth: Culture and Ideology in Mexican National Space (Berkeley, 1992) and a collection of essays entitled Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: Nationalism and the Public Sphere (Minneapolis, forthcoming).