THE AMERICAS
74:S1/Febr uar y 2017/S3–S12
COPYRIGHT BY THE ACADEMY OF
AMERICAN FRANCISCAN HISTORY
doi:10.1017/tam.2016.96
REVOLUTION AND REVOLUTIONARY
MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA: A Special
Teaching and Research Collection of The
Americas
T
his curated collection of The Americas explores revolution and
revolutionary movements in Latin American history from the colonial
period to the present. This theme embraces events and processes
contributing to the courses, outcomes, and reactions to both moments
conventionally labeled “revolutions” in Latin American history, such as largescale events like the Mexican Revolution, and more disparate efforts to secure—
or resist—sociopolitical change.
The choice of this theme is designed to spotlight the ways in which
articles appearing in The Americas have engaged with, and intervened in, the
historiography on revolution in Latin America. The compilation takes a broad
geographic and temporal approach, and includes scholarship devoted to a
variety of Latin American countries in the late-colonial and national periods.
This collection highlights how conceptual and analytical trends—the cultural
turn, for instance—and methodologies—material or visual culture studies, for
example—have contributed to historians’ different approaches to the study of
revolution over the years, inluencing the questions asked and the conclusions
drawn. In addition to citing journal articles published from the late 1940s
to the 2010s, we include references to monographs and articles published
elsewhere, to give readers a sense of other historical scholarship produced
contemporaneously with a given article.
In this introduction, I draw out three main themes—resistance, reaction, and
solidarity—that low out of a reading of the articles included in this collection
and may be useful frameworks for orienting readers’ engagement with the
curated compilation’s contents.
My thanks to Ben Vinson III, Eric Zolov, and the other members of the editorial board at The Americas for their
insightful comments and helpful guidance in preparation of this introduction and curated collection.
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In his classic study of the Haitian Revolution, C. L. R. James outlined the
multiplicity of factors to which historians might direct their critical attention
when unraveling the intricacies of revolutionary movements. To excavate the
“subsoil” from which revolution emanated at “moments when society is at
a boiling point and therefore luid,” James advised scholars to attend to a
plethora of interacting forces: economics, society and politics, and the actions
of both individuals and “the masses.” Mapping these causal factors and their
connections would render the apparently “meaningless chaos” of revolutions
legible.1
This curated collection of The Americas works in the tradition of James’s
approach, spotlighting scholarship published since the journal’s inception
in 1944 that has explored, from a variety of methodological and analytical
approaches, the constellation of forces that have propelled moments at which
Latin American societies have been exceptionally luid. This compilation
embraces an expansive deinition of the term “revolution,” attending to study
of diffuse instances of popular mobilization and events conventionally labelled
“revolutions” by placing scholarship dedicated to movements that sought to
alter fundamental characteristics of Latin American societies in the colonial
and national periods into dialogue. The collection thus illuminates the roots
of resistance, reaction, and solidarity that animated the origins, processes,
and outcomes of revolutionary currents. Simultaneously, the collection
demonstrates The Americas’ critical interventions into the historiography of
revolution. The selected articles, ordered by date of publication, provide a
snapshot of how pivotal historiographic shifts—the rise of women’s history,
the cultural turn—and transformative moments—the Cuban Revolution of
1959 or the proliferation of reactionary military dictatorships in the 1970s and
1980s—in Latin American history shaped historians’ questions and conclusions
regarding revolution’s nature, and conditioned the methodological strategies
through which they attempted to access the histories of revolutionary moments.
The irst trio of articles illustrates an early tendency to examine revolution
through its leaders. Bernard Bobb’s (1947) study of José Artigas’s
Independence-era exploits in the Banda Oriental, William H. Gray’s (1950)
analysis of José San Martı́n’s social reforms, and Mary Aquinas Healy’s
(1953) discussion of Toussaint L’Ouverture’s contributions to independence
movements in the Americas relect a slant toward “great-man histories.” These
biographic accounts foregrounded leaders’ personalities, thought, and goals.
Overlaid with the contemporary emphasis in the United States on opposing
1. C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (New York:
Random House, 1963), xi.
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dictatorships in the post World War II and early Cold War periods, these studies
veered close to adulation of Independence-era leaders as heroic champions of
liberty. Bobb, for example, praised Artigas as “the most gaucho among all
gauchos” and admired his “adherence to ideals and tenacity of purpose.”2
Healy’s portrait of L’Ouverture as a pragmatic liberator and advocate of
raceless nationhood countered former colonial powers’ nationalist histories,
many of which maligned L’Ouverture. Amid decolonization’s rising tide and
an embryonic civil rights movement in the United States, L’Ouverture’s
rehabilitation aimed at an “objective interpretation of Haitian history” and
focused on a man who, Healy speculated, “would have been surprised if he
had known that even in 1953 race barriers still exist, though fortunately they
are gradually breaking down.”3
From the 1960s onward, scholarship published in The Americas made
an increasingly concerted effort to attend to ordinary Latin Americans’
experiences, such as those of campesinos, the economic forces they confronted,
and the interactions between revolutionary states and various constituencies.
This shift bore the imprints of structural materialism, reined Marxist
historiography, and social history’s ascendancy. Reassessments of the Mexican
Revolution of 1910 dominated.4 This strand demonstrated ambivalence
regarding the Revolution’s progressive nature, a view conditioned by Mexico’s
growing authoritarianism after 1940, and, by decade’s end, the repression
meted out in the Tlatelolco massacre of 1968. Joe Ashby’s (1963) piece traces
the vision in Cárdenas-era labor theory of a “wedded and co-dependent”
relationship between an inluential state and labor, forged through a blend
of orthodox socialism and solutions tailored to the Mexican context.5 John
2. Bernard Bobb, “José Artigas,” The Americas 4:2 (October 1947): 200.
3. Mary Aquinas Healy, “The Contributions of Toussaint L’Ouverture to the Independence of the American
Republics, 1776–1826,” The Americas 9:4 (April 1953): 426.
4. The literature on the Mexican Revolution is voluminous. The historiographic debate, particularly since the
1960s, has turned on the question of the Revolution’s nature—progressive or conservative—and the relationship
between the Revolution’s goals and twentieth-century Mexico’s authoritarian politics. Frank Tannenbaum’s work,
including The Mexican Agrarian Revolution (New York: The MacMillan Company, 1929), is often credited with
establishing a view of the Revolution as popular and agrarian. Revisionist interpretations, like that of Ramón Eduardo
Ruiz in The Great Rebellion: Mexico, 1905–1924 (New York: Norton: 1980), emphasize the Revolution’s limited gains
and characterize the conlict as one that birthed a state whose conservative bent was evident as early as the 1920s.
Work produced since the 1980s explores the Revolution’s cultural politics, the interactions between localities and the
state, and regional variations. See for example Mary Kay Vaughan, Cultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers, Peasants
and Schools in Mexico, 1930–1940 (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013); and Ben Fallaw, Religion and State
Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico (Durham: Duke University Press, 2013). Alan Knight and Jaime Rodrı́guez’s
The Mexican Revolution, 1910–1940 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011) provides a concise overview of the
current state of the ield. For a historiographic assessment published contemporaneously with Hart’s articles, see David
C. Bailey, “Revisionism and the Recent Historiography of the Mexican Revolution,” Hispanic American Historical
Review 58:1 (February 1978): 62–79.
5. Joe C. Ashby, “Labor and the Theory of the Mexican Revolution under Lázaro Cárdenas,” The Americas
20:2 (October 1963): 172.
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Hart’s pair of articles (1972, 1974) analyze nineteenth-century agrarian and
urban labor organizing as the preludes to the Revolution. Hart locates the
Revolution’s genesis in “land polarization,” the conlict between campesinos
and hacendados and the chronic economic and political instability that
prompted the working class to organize “virtually in self-defense.”6 While
recognizing the limits of agrarian and labor mobilizations, Hart’s attention
to the development of those movements and their grievances deepened
understanding of the Revolution’s economic, social, and ideological roots.
Histories produced from the 1960s forward also shared an emphasis on
US attempts to steer political change in Latin America.7 Inspired by New
Left scholarship’s animosity to US efforts to quell perceived Communist
iniltration in the Western Hemisphere and further abroad, tactics modeled
in the US-directed coup against Guatemala’s democratically elected president
in 1954, vociferous reaction against Fidel Castro’s revolutionary government
in Cuba, and escalating engagement in the Vietnam War, historians’ concerns
shifted toward enhanced, and often critical, attention to US foreign policy
and its interventionist posture. George Baker’s (1965) study of Woodrow
Wilson’s non-recognition policy in Costa Rica following Federico Tinoco’s
assumption of power in 1917, published three months after President
Lyndon Johnson invaded the Dominican Republic, is emblematic of this
reorientation. Baker charges that Wilson’s default response to revolution,
applied to Mexico, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, represented “self-righteous
meddling” that perpetuated economic and political instability “in a nation of
strategic importance to the U.S.”8 US intervention was similarly underscored in
studies of the role of Latin American militaries in revolution. The authoritarian
military dictatorships installed in the Southern Cone in the 1970s, such
as that of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, and the escalating repression carried
out in the Guatemalan Civil War, might account for historians’ desire to
approach revolution by explaining the entrenchment of Latin American
militaries. Louis A. Pérez’s (1974) article explores how US intervention, the
Cuban military’s self-preservation instinct, and the desire to avoid an “open
6. John Hart, “Agrarian Precursors of the Mexican Revolution: The Development of an Ideology,” The Americas
29:2 (October 1972); John Hart, “Nineteenth Century Urban Labor Precursors of the Mexican Revolution: The
Development of an Ideology,” The Americas 30:3 (January 1974): 309.
7. William Appleman Williams’s The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1959)
is a primary root of the historiographic lineage that stressed the US’s expansionist and imperialist tendencies. Attention
to the inluence of US foreign policy, and indictment of its goals and tactics, have remained touchstones of scholars’
evaluation of Latin American revolutions. Two prominent examples are Walter LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions: The
United States in Central America (New York: Norton: 1983), and more recently Greg Grandin and Gilbert M.
Joseph, eds., A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence During Latin America’s Long Cold
War (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010).
8. George W. Baker, “Woodrow Wilson’s Use of the Non-Recognition Policy in Costa Rica,” The Americas
22:1 (July 1965): 21.
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revolution” propelled Gerardo Machado’s downfall in 1933. The result was
an institutional alignment that established the “praetorian tradition” to which
Castro’s revolution responded.9 Kenneth Grieb’s (1976) piece highlights the
alliance between professionalized junior oficers in the Guatemalan military
and middle-class youth as the decisive factor in the October Revolution of
1944. Writing in 1976, Grieb stressed that the “price to pay” for the military’s
prominent role, and the Constitution that rendered the army “virtually
independent,” was a structure wherein the middle class remained beholden to
the armed forces.10
Grieb’s analysis begins with a pledge to add nuance to the “stereotype of
revolution.” In the 1980s, social and cultural historians extended this approach
by attending to the participation of marginalized sectors, particularly women
and the indigenous. In the wake of the second-wave feminist movement, articles
by Anna Macias (1980) and Barbara Miller (1984) in The Americas injected
women’s histories into the study of Latin American revolution. Macias’s
exploration of women intellectuals’ critical role in articulating revolutionary
philosophy, soldaderas, and the Revolution’s female victims, opened up a
historiographical trajectory that promised to enrich the ield through attention
to women’s experiences and gender history.11 Her work, which integrates oral
history, novels, and artwork, models the novel methodological approach of
the cultural turn. Miller’s analysis of Mexican Catholic women’s activity in
the Cristero rebellion extended this historiographic focus, while illuminating
a signiicant paradox: although popular mobilization provided an arena for
women’s participation, gendered notions might surface to condition, and
eventually restrict, women’s political activity.12 A parallel historiographic strand
highlighted the agency of indigenous groups and campesinos in sparking
attempts at sociopolitical change.13 Peter Blanchard’s (1982) study countered
9. Louis A. Pérez, Jr., “The Military and Political Aspects of the 1933 Cuban Revolution: The Fall of Machado,”
The Americas 31:2 (October 1974): 184.
10. Kenneth J. Grieb, “The Guatemalan Military and the Revolution of 1944,” The Americas 32:4 (April 1976):
543.
11. At the time of her 1980 article in The Americas on women in the Mexican revolution, Macias could point to
only one monograph that investigated Mexican women’s role in the Revolution. For a contemporary publication that
also addressed this topic, see Shirlene Ann Soto, The Mexican Woman: A Study of Her Participation in the Revolution,
1910–1940 (Palo Alto: R & E Research Associates, 1979).
12. Since 1980, historians have produced a vibrant literature on the roles of women and gender politics in
mobilization. For recent examples, see contributions to Elizabeth Dore and Maxine Molyneux, eds., Hidden Histories
of Gender and the State in Latin America (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000); Mary Kay Vaughan, Gabriela Cano,
and Jocelyn Olcott, eds., Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico (Durham: Duke University
Press, 2007); and Jocelyn Olcott, Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico (Durham: Duke University Press,
2006). For an analysis contemporary with Macias’s that probed the paradoxes of women’s participation in the nascent
Argentine right, see Sandra F. McGee, “The Visible and Invisible Liga Patriótica Argentina, 1919-26,” Hispanic
American Historical Review 64:2 (May 1984): 233–258.
13. Steve Stern’s edited collection, Resistance, Rebellion, and Consciousness in the Andean Peasant World: 18th
to 20th Centuries (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987), contains several excellent essays that encourage
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the image of indigenous “passivity” by tracing indigenous challenges to
exploitation in Peru after the War of the Paciic. Eric Ching’s (1998)
reassessment of the 1932 peasant rebellion in El Salvador blends the history
of labor, locality, ethnicity, and culture to foreground Salvadoran indigenous
peasants’ agency in propelling the revolt independently of the Communist Party
(PCS). Signiicantly, this scholarship illuminated mobilization’s particularities
in discrete spaces by taking a regional or local approach. Blanchard analyzed
indigenous action in the Peruvian sierra, while Ching examined indigenous
peasant organizing in Nahuizalco.
Ching’s piece, read alongside Charles Harris and Louis Sadler’s (1982) article
on the Mexican Revolution’s “underside,” points to the transformative role
that expanding source bases played in reformulating histories of revolution.
Ching’s analysis rests on previously unavailable documentary evidence from
Russia and El Salvador, released after the Soviet Union’s dissolution and the
end of the Cold War and the Salvadoran Civil War. Absent these new archival
sources, the PCS’s unwillingness to consider ethnicity in its organizing, and
indigenous peasants’ long history of grassroots action, might have remained
silenced. Harris and Sadler’s piece drew on recently declassiied documents
from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation’s archives to reposition the
Orozco rebellion of 1912 as a borderlands phenomenon. These documents
enabled the two authors to construct El Paso as a nexus of weapons
smuggling and intelligence, stretching the Revolution’s geographic reach while
promoting collaboration between historians of revolution and borderlands
scholars.
The inal group of articles relects the inluence of the cultural turn. From the
1980s forward, historians reoriented their focus to investigate revolutionary
cultures’ construction, memory, and representation. Ben Fallaw’s (1997) piece
employs a regional study of the Yucatán to demonstrate how the Cárdenas
regime attempted to transform the nineteenth-century caste war’s legacy to
suit the consolidating revolutionary state’s aims. Through analysis of the
symbolism and ceremony employed in the state-sponsored Crusade of the
Mayab in 1937, Fallaw demonstrates how the regime’s cultural appropriation
sought to subsume indigenous identities under a uniform “Mayanism,”
reinforced through cultural artifacts, and ultimately clashed with indigenous
readers to consider peasant action as being, as Stern puts it, “problematic rather than predictable.” Monographs that
expanded focus on the complexities of radicalization from the bottom up and campesino and indigenous agency,
often through local studies that incorporate oral histories, include Jeffrey Gould, To Lead as Equals: Rural Protest
and Political Consciousness in Chinandenga, Nicaragua (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990); and
Cindy Forster, The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala’s October Revolution (Pittsburgh: University of
Pittsburgh Press, 2001).
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peasants’ self-identiication. Rebecca Earle’s (1997) article investigates how
information circulated in Independence-era New Granada. In tracing the way
oral culture—including rumor, propaganda, and deliberate disinformation—
moved through Independence-era New Granada and its strategic deployment,
Earle reconstructs the medium through which revolutionary discourse and
information traveled and were reworked.
The penultimate section of articles demonstrates an extension of the cultural
approach, spotlighting work illustrative of the ield’s cross-fertilization with
ilm, material culture, and visual studies. Christine Ehrick’s (2006) analysis
of Uruguayan cinema between 1910 and 1920 highlights the use of ilm by
elite actors, particularly upper class women, during a transformative period
marked by President José Battle’s reforms, the construction of the welfare
state, women’s changing sociopolitical roles, and cresting creole nationalism.
In this environment, beneicent cinema—ilm produced by and for social
assistance organizations—was deployed to negotiate and reafirm class and
gender hierarchies. Jesús Cruz (2004) investigates the symbiosis between
alterations in middle-class Spaniards’ consumer culture and the formation
of liberal identities, proposing a link between material and political culture
and framing the nineteenth-century revolutions as “processes of cultural
construction.”14 James Krippner’s (2007) proile of photographer Paul Strand’s
work in Mexico in the early 1930s explores Strand’s role in formulating
Mexico’s “‘revolutionary’ transformation through images.”15 These articles
delve into the cultural and material tools used to structure the immediate
environment, society, and nation in moments of lux.
The inal inclusions point to revolutionary historiography’s recent attention
to youth culture, deep analysis of the intellectual roots of mobilization,
and transnational links.16 Through a close reading of the publication
14. Jesús Cruz, “Building Liberal Identities in Ninteenth-Century Madrid: The Role of Middle-Class Material
Culture,” The Americas 60:3 (January 2004): 392.
15. James Krippner, “Traces, Images, and Fictions: Paul Strand in Mexico, 1932-34,” The Americas 63:3
(January 2007): 359.
16. A recent addition to the literature on the Mexican student movement and its interaction with non-student
actors is Jaime Pensado’s Rebel Mexico: Student Unrest and Authoritarian Political Culture During the Long Sixties
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013). Studies on youth movements in the Southern Cone include Patrick
Barr-Melej, “Siloı́smo and the Self in Allende’s Chile: Youth, ‘Total Revolution,’ and the Roots of the Humanist
Movement,” Hispanic American Historical Review 86:4 (November 2006): 747–784; and Valeria Monzano, The
Age of Youth in Argentina: Culture, Politics, and Sexuality from Peron to Videla (Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 2014). Tanya Harmer’s “The View from Havana: Chilean Exiles in Cuba and Early Resistance to
Chile’s Dictatorship, 1973–1977,” Hispanic American Historical Review 96:1 (February 2016): 109–146, explores
transnational organizing in opposition to Pinochet’s dictatorship. Jessica Stites-Mor’s edited collection, Human Rights
and Transnational Solidarity in Cold War Latin America (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013), highlights
how understudied social actors constructed and spread visions of citizenship and community to spur mobilization
against various forms of exclusion and repression generated by the Cold War.
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Contorno, Sebastián Carassai (2010) deconstructs how the Peronist experience,
generational differences with their predecessors, and disagreement with their
contemporaries pushed young Argentine intellectuals to adopt the view that
“making culture was making politics” and to develop a vision of social
revolution wherein Peronism was the precursor to change. Joaquı́n Chávez’s
(2014) piece employs a similar focus on youth culture, blending insights from
transnational, Cold War and Global Sixties scholarship. Chávez illustrates the
inluence of the originally conservative Catholic Unity Action (ACUS) on
the Salvadoran New Left, and this movement’s use of multiple intellectual,
cultural, and political traditions in the 1960s to construct alliances with rural
peasant communities. Members’ ideological renovation was sparked by the
Second Vatican Council, the guidance of two Belgian priests, Catholic social
thought, the “just war” doctrine, and personal experiences with intensiied state
repression.17 Dalia Antonia Muller’s (2011) article traces the pursuit of intraLatin American solidarity by afiliates of the Cuban Revolutionary Party (PRC)
who worked to secure support for the Cuban independence movement in the
late nineteenth century. Muller proposes that investigating the reaction to this
network’s campaigns, which attracted the support of students and artisans but
failed to secure broad allegiance from Latin American governments, aids in
understanding the ways in which US intervention on the island was received,
and points to the legacies of prior revolutionary struggles in conditioning
support for future efforts. These pieces demonstrate the intricacies of the local,
national, and international forces propelling mobilization.
This collection’s march through The Americas’ contributions to, and
interventions in, the historiography on Latin American revolutionary currents
illuminates scholars’ use of evolving conceptual and methodological paradigms.
At the same time, the compilation focuses on core concerns foundational to
any study of popular mobilization. The initiatives of leaders, the actions of
popular sectors, the creative strategies of marginalized groups, the inluence
of institutions, and the interplay between these forces, emerge as key
motors of revolution. This collection highlights the reactionary impulses,
driven by both external forces and internal sociopolitical dynamics, that have
attended movements aimed at reform. Finally, this scholarship relects enduring
engagement with the question of solidarity in revolution and its aftermath,
and the mechanisms through which alliances were forged within Latin America
17. Joaquı́n M. Chávez, “Catholic Action, the Second Vatican Council, and the Emergence of the New Left
in El Salvador (1950–1975),” The Americas 70:3 (January 2014): 474–75, 479, 483. This article is drawn from a
special issue on Latin America in the Global 1960s that contains several articles indicative of recent trends in the
historiography of revolution, including Valeria Manzano, “‘Rock Nacional’ and Revolutionary Politics: The Making
of a Youth Culture of Contestation in Argentina, 1966–1979,” and Aldo Marchesi, “Revolution Beyond the Sierra
Maestra: The Tupamaros and the Development of a Repertoire of Dissent in the Southern Cone.”
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to generate, condition, and resist change. In the diverse methodological and
conceptual approaches taken by the authors, this special curated collection
illustrates how multi-pronged and versatile frameworks have enriched study of
revolutionary movements. It is through these varied and analytically rigorous
approaches that, to return to James’s insight, the depth and breadth of the
revolutionary “subsoils” and courses of “luid” historical moments in Latin
America’s history can be unearthed.
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
ERICA TOFFOLI, PHD CANDIDATE
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Blanchard, Peter. “Indian Unrest in the Peruvian Sierra in the Late Nineteenth Century.” 38:4 (April
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