“In addition to illuminating popular politics, he [Stephen Neufeld] offers the first cultural and social history of the Porfirian military, foregrounding the gendered and racialized experiences of nation-state formation.”—Carlos R. Hernández, Latin American Research Review
“Neufeld gives the text a powerful structure that dissects the army’s social and cultural history.”—Hispanic American Historical Review
“Innovative.”—Wild West History Association Journal
“A fascinating and original cultural history. From the barracks, military academies, and far-flung theaters of counterinsurgency, Neufeld demonstrates the Mexican military’s complex role in late nineteenth-century state formation. He provides insight into the everyday lives and struggles faced by the men and women who made the Mexican military—indeed, Porfirian Mexico—possible.”—Alexander Aviña, author of Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside
