Conflict and Correspondence: Belonging and Urban Community in Guadalajara, Mexico, 1939-1947 - Paperback
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Conflict and Correspondence: Belonging and Urban Community in Guadalajara, Mexico, 1939-1947 - Paperback
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by Jason H. Dormady (Author)
In the decades following the 1910 Mexican Revolution, Guadalajara faced immense demographic and economic transformation, stunning both longtime residents and new arrivals. The city's population nearly tripled from 1920 to 1950, and the resultant population boom strained government resources and challenged living standards for all.
In Conflict and Correspondence Jason H. Dormady examines the critical transition period when Guadalajara lost control of urban growth after 1939 and when the newly empowered state and federal governments began to exercise immense control over the development of the city in 1947. As the city changed around them, residents used petitions and letters to municipal officials to help address their feelings of alienation, isolation, and separation from the community around them. Petitions took the form of sensate, moral, recreational, spiritual, and gendered arguments about creating livable communities and avoiding the disorientation experienced by urban transformation. In the context of infrastructure failures, tight housing markets, and a dramatic aesthetic transition, petitions on these topics reinforced to residents--and, they hoped, city officials--their belonging to the community. Resident petitions reveal how everyday people lived the consequences of the 1910 revolution as they advocated for shaping space and building place in midcentury Guadalajara.Author Biography
Jason H. Dormady is a professor of history and program faculty in Latino and Latin American studies and American Indian studies at Central Washington University. He is the author of Primitive Revolution: Restorationist Religion and the Idea of the Mexican Revolution, 1940-1968.
Number of Pages: 264
Dimensions: 0.6 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: December 01, 2025
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