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This unique book traces Mexico's eventful years from 1910 to 1952
through the experiences of its state governors. During this seminal
period, revolutionaries destroyed the old regime, created a new
national government, built an official political party, and then
discarded in practice the essence of their revolution. In this
tumultuous time, governors some of whom later became president
served as the most significant intermediaries between the national
government and the people it ruled. Leading scholars study
governors from ten different states to demonstrate the diversity of
the governors' experiences implementing individual revolutionary
programs over time, as well as the waxing and waning of strong
governorship as an institution that ultimately disappeared in the
powerful national regime created in the 1940s and 1950s. Until that
time, the contributors convincingly argue, the governors provided
the revolution with invaluable versatility by dealing with pressing
issues of land, labor, housing, and health at the local and
regional levels. The flexibility of state governors also offered
test cases for the implementation of national revolutionary laws
and campaigns. The only book that considers the state governors in
comparative perspective, this invaluable study offers a fresh view
of regionalism and the Revolution. Contributions by: William H.
Beezley, Jurgen Buchenau, Francie R. Chassen-Lopez, Michael A.
Ervin, Maria Teresa Fernandez Aceves, Paul Gillingham, Kristin A.
Harper, Timothy Henderson, David LaFrance, Stephen E. Lewis,
Stephanie J. Smith, and Andrew Grant Wood."
This unique book traces Mexico's eventful years from 1910 to 1952
through the experiences of its state governors. During this seminal
period, revolutionaries destroyed the old regime, created a new
national government, built an official political party, and then
discarded in practice the essence of their revolution. In this
tumultuous time, governors some of whom later became president
served as the most significant intermediaries between the national
government and the people it ruled. Leading scholars study
governors from ten different states to demonstrate the diversity of
the governors' experiences implementing individual revolutionary
programs over time, as well as the waxing and waning of strong
governorship as an institution that ultimately disappeared in the
powerful national regime created in the 1940s and 1950s. Until that
time, the contributors convincingly argue, the governors provided
the revolution with invaluable versatility by dealing with pressing
issues of land, labor, housing, and health at the local and
regional levels. The flexibility of state governors also offered
test cases for the implementation of national revolutionary laws
and campaigns. The only book that considers the state governors in
comparative perspective, this invaluable study offers a fresh view
of regionalism and the Revolution. Contributions by: William H.
Beezley, Jurgen Buchenau, Francie R. Chassen-Lopez, Michael A.
Ervin, Maria Teresa Fernandez Aceves, Paul Gillingham, Kristin A.
Harper, Timothy Henderson, David LaFrance, Stephen E. Lewis,
Stephanie J. Smith, and Andrew Grant Wood."
The only substantive study of Plutarco Elias Calles and the Mexican
Revolution, this book traces the remarkable life story of a complex
and little-understood, yet key figure in Mexico's history. Jurgen
Buchenau draws on a rich array of archival evidence from Mexico,
the United States, and Europe to explore Calles's origins and
political trajectory. He hailed from Sonora, a border state marked
by fundamental social and economic change at the turn of the
twentieth century. After dabbling in various careers, Calles found
the early years of the revolution (1910-1920) afforded him the
chance to rise to local and ultimately national prominence. As
president from 1924 to 1928, Calles embarked on an ambitious reform
program, modernized the financial system, and defended national
sovereignty against an interventionist U.S. government. Yet these
reforms failed to eradicate underdevelopment, corruption, and
social injustice. Moreover, his unyielding campaigns against the
Catholic Church and his political enemies earned him a reputation
as a repressive strongman. After his term as president, Calles
continued to exert broad influence as his country's foremost
political figure while three weaker presidents succeeded each other
in an atmosphere of constant political crisis. He played a
significant role in founding a ruling party that reined in the
destructive ambitions of leading army officers and promised to help
campesinos and workers attain better living conditions. This
dynastic party and its successors, including the present-day
Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI, or Party of the
Institutional Revolution), remained in power until 2000. Many of
the institutions and laws forged during the Calles era survived
into the present. Through this comprehensive assessment of a
quintessential politician in an era dominated by generals,
entrepreneurs, and educated professionals, Buchenau opens an
illuminating window into the Mexican Revolution and contemporary
Mexico."
In this concise historical analysis of the Mexican Revolution,
Gilbert M. Joseph and Jurgen Buchenau explore the revolution's
causes, dynamics, consequences, and legacies. They do so from
varied perspectives, including those of campesinos and workers;
politicians, artists, intellectuals, and students; women and men;
the well-heeled, the dispossessed, and the multitude in the middle.
In the process, they engage major questions about the revolution.
How did the revolutionary process and its aftermath modernize the
nation's economy and political system and transform the lives of
ordinary Mexicans? Rather than conceiving the revolution as either
the culminating popular struggle of Mexico's history or the triumph
of a new (not so revolutionary) state over the people, Joseph and
Buchenau examine the textured process through which state and
society shaped each other. The result is a lively history of
Mexico's "long twentieth century," from Porfirio Diaz's modernizing
dictatorship to the neoliberalism of the present day.
In this concise historical analysis of the Mexican Revolution,
Gilbert M. Joseph and Jurgen Buchenau explore the revolution's
causes, dynamics, consequences, and legacies. They do so from
varied perspectives, including those of campesinos and workers;
politicians, artists, intellectuals, and students; women and men;
the well-heeled, the dispossessed, and the multitude in the middle.
In the process, they engage major questions about the revolution.
How did the revolutionary process and its aftermath modernize the
nation's economy and political system and transform the lives of
ordinary Mexicans? Rather than conceiving the revolution as either
the culminating popular struggle of Mexico's history or the triumph
of a new (not so revolutionary) state over the people, Joseph and
Buchenau examine the textured process through which state and
society shaped each other. The result is a lively history of
Mexico's "long twentieth century," from Porfirio Diaz's modernizing
dictatorship to the neoliberalism of the present day.
Earthquakes have helped shape the history of many Latin American
nations. The effects of floods, droughts, hurricanes, and
earthquakes and tsunamis have destroyed peoples' lives and their
built environments, and changed land forms, such as mountains,
rivers, forests, and canyons.
This collection of essays focuses on earthquakes in Latin America
since the mid-nineteenth century. Often interpreted as evidence of
God's wrath, internalized as punishment for sins, and serving as
detonators of revolutions, earthquakes have shined an unforgiving
light on political corruption and provided new opportunities to
previously disadvantaged groups. These analyses of earthquakes
reveal the human role in shaping interactions with our environment.
Contributors:
Paul J. Dosal, University of South Florida, Tampa
Virginia Garrard-Burnett, University of Texas, Austin
Mark Healey, University of California, Berkeley
Samuel J. Martland, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre
Haute, Indiana
Stuart McCook, University of Guelph, Ontario
Charles Walker, University of California, Davis
Louise E. Walker, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
This rich anthology provides a glimpse of modern Mexico through the
eyes of foreign observers. Some of these selections are by
well-known authors (Alexander von Humboldt, John Reed, B. Traven,
Evelyn Waugh). Some are unpublished pieces by little-known writers,
and six are available here for the first time in English. The
writings fall into four periods: the transitions to independence
and Mexico's first decades as a sovereign country (1800-1867), the
era of Liberal modernization (1867-1910), the Mexican Revolution
(1910-1940), and the post-World War II era. Four major topics show
up repeatedly: ethnicity, gender, and race; cultural differences
between Mexicans and foreigners; political stability and
instability; and the economy and its impact on Mexicans. Although
observers expressed a wide range of viewpoints on these issues,
they agreed in finding a stunning degree of ethnic and regional
diversity as well as what they saw as stark contrasts between urban
and rural, rich and poor, modernity and tradition. In addition to
Anglo American authors, the anthology includes selections by
German, French, Norwegian, and Spanish authors. Just over a third
of the pieces are by women, who offer glimpses of private worlds
closed to men, such as convent life, relations between women and
their servants, and household affairs. Each selection contains
biographical information on the author.
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