The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940
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The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940

  1. 319 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 31 Dec |Learn more

The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940

About this book

This judicious history of modern Mexico's revolutionary era will help all readers, and in particular students, understand the first great social uprising of the twentieth century. In 1911, land-hungry peasants united with discontented political elites to overthrow General Porfirio Díaz, who had ruled Mexico for three decades. Gonzales offers a path breaking overview of the revolution from its origins in the Díaz dictatorship through the presidency of radical General Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-1940) drawn from archival sources and a vast secondary literature.

His interpretation balances accounts of agrarian insurgencies, shifting revolutionary alliances, counter-revolutions, and foreign interventions to delineate the triumphs and failures of revolutionary leaders such as Francisco I. Madero, Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata, Alvaro Obregón, and Venestiano Carranza. What emerges is a clear understanding of the tangled events of the period and a fuller appreciation of the efforts of revolutionary presidents after 1916 to reinvent Mexico amid the limitations imposed by a war-torn countryside, a hostile international environment, and the resistance of the Catholic Church and large land-owners.

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Information

Publisher
UNM Press
Year
2002
Print ISBN
9780826327802
eBook ISBN
9780826327819

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Introduction
  9. One: General Porfirio DĂ­az and the Liberal Legacy
  10. Two: Crisis and Revolution
  11. Three: Counterrevolution
  12. Four: Northern Revolutionaries and the Fall of Huerta
  13. Five: Power Struggle
  14. Six: Carranza in Power
  15. Seven: Alvaro ObregĂłn and the Reconstruction of Mexico
  16. Eight: Plutarco ElĂ­as Calles and the Revolutionary State
  17. Nine: Lázaro Cárdenas and the Search for the Revolutionary Utopia, 1934–1940
  18. Conclusion
  19. Notes
  20. Index