In 1910 insurgent leaders crushed the Porfirian dictatorship,
but in the years that followed fought among themselves, until a
nationalist consensus produced the 1917 Constitution. This in turn
provided the basis for a reform agenda that transformed Mexico in
the modern era. The civil war and the reforms that followed receive
new and insightful attention in this book.
These essays, the result of the 45th annual Walter Prescott Webb
Memorial Lectures, presented by the University of Texas at
Arlington in March 2010, commemorate the centennial of the outbreak
of the revolution.
A potent mix of factors--including the concentration of wealth
in the hands of a few thousand hacienda owners, rancheros, and
foreign capitalists; the ideological conflict between the Diaz
government and the dissident regional reformers; and the grinding
poverty afflicting the majority of the nation's eleven million
industrial and rural laborers--provided the volatile fuel that
produced the first major political and social revolution of the
twentieth century. The conflagration soon swept across the Rio
Grande; indeed, "The Mexican Revolution" shows clearly that the
struggle in Mexico had tremendous implications for the American
Southwest. During the years of revolution, hundreds of thousands of
Mexican citizens crossed the border into the United States. As a
result, the region experienced waves of ethnically motivated
violence, economic tensions, and the mass expulsions of Mexicans
and US citizens of Mexican descent.
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