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CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Abbreviations ix Introduction 1 CHAPTER ONE Antimilitarism and Revolution in Mexico 13 CHAPTER TWO Cardenismo, Revolutionary Citizenship, and the Redefinition of Mexican Militarism, 1934–1940 31 CHAPTER THREE Heaven Gave You a Soldier for Every Son 54 Conscription and Resistance in Mexico in the 1940s CHAPTER FOUR Civilianism and Its Discontents 81 Officers, Politics, and the PRI CHAPTER FIVE Military Policing and Society in Mexico, 1940–1960 115 CHAPTER SIX The Army, Veterans, and the Historical Memory of the Revolution 144 Conclusion 167 Notes 173 Bibliography 217 Index 237 TABLES 2.1 Annual Base Pay in Pesos of Mexican Army Officers and Enlisted Men, 1925–1965 39 3.1 1944 Conscripts, by State 70 4.1 Number of Mexican Generals in the Army, 1934–1953 85 4.2 Total Changes in Zone Command, Average Months in Command, and New Zone Commanders in Each Presidential Term, 1935–1952 86 5.1 Infantry Battalions and Cavalry Regiments in Each State and Total Change in Troops, 1940 and 1950 118 ...