Illinois Authors

Virtual Artists Collective, La Vergne, TN : ©2010.

Agrarian Revolt in a Mexican Village deals with a Taráscan Indian village in southwestern Mexico which, between 1920 and 1926, played a precedent-setting role in agrarian reform. As he describes forty years in the history of this small pueblo, Paul Friedrich raises general questions about local politics and agrarian reform that are basic to our understanding of radical change in peasant societies around the world. Of particular interest is his detailed study of the colorful, violent, and psychologically complex leader, Primo Tapia, whose biography bears on the theoretical issues of the polit.

University of Chicago Press, Chicago : 1977.

Agrarian Revolt in a Mexican Village deals with a Taráscan Indian village in southwestern Mexico (Naranja, Michoacán) which, between 1920 and 1926, played a precedent-setting role in agrarian reform. As he describes forty years in the history of this small pueblo, Paul Friedrich raises general questions about local politics and agrarian reform that are basic to our understanding of radical change in peasant societies around the world. Of particular interest is his detailed study of the colorful, violent, and psychologically complex leader, Primo Tapia, whose biography bears on the theoretical issues of the "political middleman" and the relation between individual motivation and socioeconomic change. Friedrich's evidence includes massive interviewing, personal letters, observations as an anthropological participant (e.g., in fiesta ritual), analysis of the politics and other village culture during 1955-56, comparison with other Taráscan villages, historical and prehistoric background materials, and research in legal and government agrarian archives.

Virtual Artists Collective, [New York, N.Y.] : 2006.

Virtual Artists Collective, [Chicago?] : ©2007.

Peter Lang, New York : ©1998.

This innovative work from Paul Friedrich surveys the Russian lyric scene from the mid-eighteenth century through the Modern period, in terms of the poets' own ideas as well as the author's interpretations.

University of Texas Press, Austin : 1986.

Argues that the locus and focus of differences among languages lies not so much in practical or rational aspects as in the complexity and richness of more poetic dimensions--in the nuances of words, or the style and voice of an author. This poetic reformulation of what has been called linguistic relativism is grounded in the author's theory of the imagination as a main source of poetic indeterminacy and, ultimately, disorder and chaos.

University of Chicago Press, Chicago : 1978.

The University of Chicago Press, Chicago : ©1978.

University of Texas Press, Austin : 1986.