Everyday Forms of State Formation is the first book to systematically examine the relationship between popular cultures and state formation in revolutionary and

Essays that suggest new ways of understanding the role that US actors and agencies have played in Latin America." - publisher.

Purnell reconsiders peasant partisanship in the cristiada of 1926-29, one episode in the broader Mexican Revolution.

A refreshing look at the meaning of socialism in Venezuela from the point of view of the country's ordinary citizens.