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The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940 (Paperback, 1st ed)
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The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940 (Paperback, 1st ed)
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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 Diaz, who had ruled Mexico for three
decades. Gonzales offers a path-breaking overview of the revolution
from its origins in the Diaz dictatorship through the presidency of
radical General Lazaro Cardenas (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 to
delineate the triumphs and failures of revolutionary leaders such
as Francisco I. Madero, Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata, Alvaro
Obregon, and Venustiano 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 landowners.
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