Unintended Lessons of RevolutionIn the 1920s, Mexico established rural normalesboarding schools that trained teachers in a new nation building project. Drawn from campesino ranks and meant to cultivate state allegiance, their graduates would facilitate land distribution, organize civic festivals, and promote hygiene campaigns. In Unintended Lessons of Revolution, Tanals Padilla traces the history of the rural normales, showing how they became sites of radical politics. As Padilla