The Everyday Experience of Revolution and “Counterrevolution” in Mexico, 1910–1940 (and Beyond)

This essay reviews the following works: Orozco: The Life and Death of a Mexican Revolutionary . By Raymond Caballero. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. Pp. vii + 343. $24.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780806157559. Unrevolutionary Mexico: The Birth of a Strange Dictatorship . By Paul Gillingham. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021. Pp. xi + 464. $42.30 hardcover. ISBN: 9780300253122. Insurgency, Counter-Insurgency, and Policing in Centre-West Mexico, 1926–1929: Fighting Cristeros . By Mark Lawrence. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pp. viii + 196. $112.50 hardcover. ISBN: 9781350095458. Soldiers, Saints, and Shamans: Indigenous Communities and the Revolutionary State in Mexico’s Gran Nayar, 1910–1940 . By Nathaniel Morris. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2020. Pp. xx + 371. $35.00 paperback. ISBN: 9780816541027. Los Mensajeros de Job: Otra cara de la revolución en Yucatán . By Marisa Pérez de Sarmiento. Mexico City: UNAM, 2017. Pp. 292. $77 hardcover. ISBN: 9786073032995. Edición y comunismo: Cultura impresa, educación militante y prácticas políticas (México, 1930–1940) . By Sebastián Rivera Mir. Raleigh, NC: Editorial A Contracorriente, 2020. $30.00 paperback. Pp. ix + 286. ISBN: 9781945234781. In Combat: The Life of Lombardo Toledano . By Daniela Spenser. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2020. Pp. xiv + 422. $28.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781642593341. For Christ and Country: Militant Catholic Youth in Post-Revolutionary Mexico . By Robert Weis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xi + 200. $80.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781108493024.