Apostle of Progress
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Apostle of Progress

Modesto C. Rolland, Global Progressivism, and the Engineering of Revolutionary Mexico

  1. 378 pages
  2. English
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Apostle of Progress

Modesto C. Rolland, Global Progressivism, and the Engineering of Revolutionary Mexico

About this book

From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, Mexico experienced major transformations influenced by a global progressive movement that thrived during the Mexican Revolution and influenced Mexico's development during subsequent governments. Engineers and other revolutionary technocrats were the system builders who drew up the blueprints, printed newspapers, implemented reforms, and constructed complexity—people who built modern Mexico with an eye on remedying long-standing problems through social, material, and infrastructural development during a period of revolutionary change. In Apostle of Progress J. Justin Castro examines the life of Modesto C. Rolland, a revolutionary propagandist and a prominent figure in the development of Mexico, to gain a better understanding of the role engineers played in creating revolution-era policies and the reconstruction of the Mexican nation. Rollandinfluenced Mexican land reform, petroleum development, stadium construction, port advancements, radio broadcasting, and experiments in political economy. In the telling of Rolland's story, Castro offers a captivating account of the Mexican Revolution and the influence of global progressivism on the development of twentieth-century Mexico.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. Child of the Porfiriato, Child of the Periphery
  10. 2. The Reluctant Revolutionary
  11. 3. A Mexican Progressive
  12. 4. Back to the Periphery
  13. 5. War and Peace
  14. 6. Transitions
  15. 7. Opportunity, Defeat, and the Death of Virginia Garza de Rolland
  16. 8. A Stadium for Stridentopolis
  17. 9. Mr. Bothersome
  18. 10. The Undersecretary
  19. 11. Going Big
  20. 12. Out of the Ports and into the Hills
  21. Conclusion
  22. Notes
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index
  25. About J. Justin Castro
  26. Series List
  27. Illustrations