Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940

Name: Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940
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ISBN: 9780826327802

ISBN-10: 082632780X

ISBN-13: 9780826327802

Edition: 2002

Authors: Michael J. Gonzales

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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 Daz, who had ruled Mexico for three decades. Gonzales offers a path-breaking overview of the revolution from its origins in the Daz dictatorship through the presidency of radical General Lzaro Crdenas (1934-1940) drawn from archival sources and a vast secondary literature. His interpretation balances accounts of agrarian insurgencies, shifting revolutionary alliances, counterrevolutions, and foreign interventions…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication date: 2/4/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 319
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.02" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Morris Singer (1921–2005) was Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut.Michael J. Gonzales is Presidential Research Professor Emeritus of History at Northern Illinois University.



Acknowledgments


List of Illustrations


Introduction



General Porfirio Diaz and the Liberal Legacy



Crisis and Revolution



Counterrevolution



Northern Revolutionaries and the Fall of Huerta



Power Struggle



Carranza in Power



Alvaro Obregon and the Reconstruction of Mexico



Plutarco Elias Calles and the Revolutionary State



Lazaro Cardenas and the Search for the Revolutionary Utopia, 1934-1940


Conclusion


Notes


Index