The Mexican Revolution: Counter-revolution and reconstructionThe Mexican Revolution was like no other: it was fueled by no vanguard party, no coherent ideology, no international ambitions; and ultimately it served to reinforce rather than to subvert many of the features of the old regime it overthrew. Alan Knight argues that a populist uprising brought about the fall of longtime dictator Porfirio Díaz in 1910. It was one of those "relatively rare episodes in history when the mass of the people profoundly influenced events." In this first of two volumes Knight shows how urban liberals joined in uneasy alliance with agrarian interests to install Francisco Madero as president and how his attempts to bring constitutional democracy to Mexico were doomed by counter-revolutionary forces. The Mexican Revolution illuminates on all levels, local and national, the complex history of an era. Rejecting fashionable Marxist and revisionist interpretations, it comes as close as any work can to being definitive. |
Contents
PORFIRIAN MEXICO I | 1 |
The regime | 15 |
THE OPPOSITION | 37 |
POPULAR PROTEST | 78 |
THE MADero revolutION | 171 |
I THE REVOLUTION GOES ON | 247 |
2 THE LIBERAL EXPERIMENT | 388 |
Notes | 491 |
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The Mexican Revolution: Volume 1, Porfirians, Liberals and Peasants Alan Knight No preview available - 1986 |
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AARD agrarian Aguilar American army banditry bandits caciques Cananea Carranza Casasola Chihuahua Científicos Coahuila conservative Cosío Villegas DHRM Díaz's Durango economic elections Fabela Federal Félix Díaz forces Gavira Gobernación Gómez González Navarro Governor Guanajuato Guerrero hacendados hacienda Hernández Historia gráfica Huerta Ibid Indian jefe político José Juárez July June labour Laguna land landlords leaders liberal Maderismo Maderista Madero regime Mazatlán mestizo Mexican Mexican Revolution Mexico City Michoacán middle-class military Morelos movement Oaxaca officials opposition organised Orozco Orozquista peace peasant peons political popular Porfirian Porfiriato Porfirio Díaz Porfiristas protest Puebla railway ranchero rebellion rebels reform region repression Revolución Sonorense revolution revolutionary Reyes Reyista Río Robles Domínguez Ross rural San Luis Sánchez Sept serrano Sierra Sinaloa social Sonora Tampico Torreón towns troops urban Veracruz Vida política village Womack workers Yaqui Yucatán Zapata Zapatismo Zapatistas