Mexican Revolution: Genesis Under Madero

Charles C. Cumberland

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9780292750173
• eBook ISBN: 9780292750562
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Mexican History
• Index: History

The history of a dictatorship's demise—and the many power struggles that followed on the rocky road to democracy in early twentieth-century Mexico.
 
The Mexican Revolution is one of the most important and ambitious sociopolitical experiments in modern times. This history by Charles C. Cumberland addresses the early years of this period, as the long dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz was finally overthrown and he was driven into exile due to the efforts of revolutionary reformer Francisco Madero, with the assistance of the famed Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata among others. Madero would become president—but would not last long in this role. This is the story of the events that would lead to years of bloody battles on the road to an eventual constitutional republic.
 
"Not only a solid contribution to Mexicana...but proof that political history can be organized logically around a leading personality...Provocative, readable, and interpretative." — The Americas

Index

Acapulco, Guerrero: captured by revolutionaries, 137; occupied by revolutionaries, 145

Agrarian colonies: 216

Agrarian Commission: see National Agrarian Commission

Agrarian demands: 205

Agrarian reforms: demand for, 24, 173, 174–75, 210; proposed by Díaz, 136–37; feared by northern hacendados, 195; accomplished, 208 ff., 252; need for, 208–209, 247; ideas current on, 208–10; in Plan de San Luis Potosí, 209; absence of general demands for, 212; legislation on, 213; proposed by Agrarian Commission, 213–14; provisions for, in Plan Orozquista, 215; objections to, 215, 220; and Twenty-sixth Congress, 216 ff.; investigations made for, 218

Agricultural villages, conditions in, under Díaz: 23

Agua Prieta, Sonora, battle of: 138–39

Aguascalientes (city), Antire-electionists in: 97–98

Aguascalientes (state): Antire-electionist demonstrations banned in, 110; provisional governor selected, 154–55

Agüeros, Victoriano: 44, 56

Aguilar, Cándido: in Morelos, 181; in Oaxaca, 185

Aguilar Higinio: 186

Aguilar, Rafael: 132

Aguirre Benavides, Adrián: 217

Ahumada, Miguel: 79, 82, 91; disrupts Reyes meeting, 68–69; ordered to surrender Jalisco government, 156

Alamos, Sonora: 92, 93, 145

Almazán, Juan Andreu: 182, 256

American nationals: deaths in Mexico, 201, 258; danger to, in Federal District, 236; protection of rights of, 251

American property, protection of: 17, 133

Anarchy reported in Sinaloa: 200

Anenecuilco, Morelos, 1908 rebellion in: 172

Angeles, Felipe: 235, 255

Angostura, Sinaloa: 92

Anti-Americanism: 123, 193, 200–201, 256

Anti-Reeleccionista, El: 76; inauguration of, 79; becomes a daily, 80; function of, 80; closed by Díaz, 85–86

Antire-electionist convention: plans for, 77–78; date set, 89; attended by delegates of Partido Nacionalista Democrático, 101; problems in holding, 101–102; held, 101–106; delegates to, 102–103; nominates Madero for presidency, 103–104; platform drafted, 104; nominates Francisco Vázquez Gómez for vice-president, 105

Antire-electionist party: organized, 62–65; liquidated, 162

Antire-electionists: attempt to organize, 61–62; encounter difficulties in organizing, 61–62; organized, 62–65; co-operation with other parties, 63; party officers, 63; party organization, 63, 79; party platform, 63–64; Díaz’ attitude toward, 69; organized in Veracruz, 72; in Yucatán, 72; in Campeche, 73; in Tamaulipas, 73–74; success in Monterrey, 74; in Nuevo León, 74; in Coahuila, 75, 76–77; in Torreón, 76–77; growth of strength, 78; growth of party with Reyes’ decline, 85; waning strength in late 1909, 86, 88–89; in Oaxaca, 89; co-operation with Partido Nacionalista Democrático, 89–90; in Querétaro, 90; in Jalisco, 90–91; in Colima, 92; in Sinaloa, 92; in Sonora, 92–93; in Chihuahua, 94; dissension among, 96; in northern and central states, 96; in Durango, 97; in Zacatecas, 97; in Aguascalientes, 97–98; in Guanajuato, 98; in San Luis Potosí, 98; consider vice-presidential candidates, 99–100; are optimistic concerning victory, 108; in Puebla, 108; caution members to act within the law, 109; in Jalapa, Veracruz, 109; in Orizaba, 109; in Veracruz, 109; stage demonstrations in San Luis Potosí, 110; decline after Madero’s arrest, 115, 116; work of Executive Committee, 115–16

Arango, Doroteo: see Francisco Villa

Aristocracy: in Chihuahua, 192, 200; responsibility of, for Madero’s fall, 257

Arriaga, Camilo: 38

Arriaga, Ponciano: 38

Assassination of Madero: 239–41; effects of, on Mexico, 241–42

Assassinations, political: 255

Ayutla, Revolution of: 19

Bachimba: 197

Banco Central Mexicano: 9, 13

Banda Negra, La: 25

Banderas, J...

Table of contents

• Cover 
• Title
• Copyright
• Preface
• Concerning Footnotes
• Contents 
• List of Illustrations
• I. Background for Revolution
• II. Madero: Education and Political Development
• III. The Book and the Parties
• IV. The Preconvention Campaign
• V. The Convention and the Election
• VI. The Revolution
• VII. The Ad Interim Government
• VIII. Zapata and Morelos
• IX. Rebellions Against the Madero Government
• X. Agrarian and Labor Reform
• XI. The Huerta Coup d’Etat
• XII. An Evaluation
• Bibliography
• Index
• Illustrations