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Long after its outbreak, the revolution remains the defining moment in Mexico’s modern history. Yet the debate over its legacy continues to this day. In a comprehensible style, aimed at students and general readers, The Mexican Revolution recounts the revolution’s main events, sorts through its internal conflicts, and asks whether or not its leaders achieved their goals.
Price: $16.00
Pages: 180
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Publication Date:
05 February 2013
Trim Size: 7.50 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9781608461820
Format: Paperback
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The Mexican Revolution: A Short History is an excellent account and analysis of the Mexican Revolution, its background, its course, and its legacy. Erudite and theoretically sophisticated, yet broadly accessible and completely jargon free, this study combines qualities not usually found in a single volume. Stuart Easterling has made an important contribution to the study of revolutions. A must read!”
Samuel Farber, author, Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959: A Critical Assessment
The Mexican Revolution is a powerful work of historical synthesis. Slicing to the foundational bones of the revolution’s dramatic arc, Easterling’s precise, surgical narrative offers a remarkably clear rendering of the conflicting class forces at play and the historical personalities brought to life through their encounter. Backdrops of uneven capitalist development and complex configurations of political authority, power, and abuse are overlaid with vivid portraits of the epoch’s leading figures Villa, Zapata, Obregón, and Carranza.”
Jeffery R. Webber, Queen Mary, University of London, author, From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia.
Samuel Farber, author, Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959: A Critical Assessment
The Mexican Revolution is a powerful work of historical synthesis. Slicing to the foundational bones of the revolution’s dramatic arc, Easterling’s precise, surgical narrative offers a remarkably clear rendering of the conflicting class forces at play and the historical personalities brought to life through their encounter. Backdrops of uneven capitalist development and complex configurations of political authority, power, and abuse are overlaid with vivid portraits of the epoch’s leading figures Villa, Zapata, Obregón, and Carranza.”
Jeffery R. Webber, Queen Mary, University of London, author, From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
II. 1910-1914
The spark: Madero’s presidential campaign
The unexpected blaze
The Zapatista tiger is loose
Madero: “Liberty will give you bread”
The thug they had hoped for
The rise of Carranza and the Constitutionalists
Pacho Villa: From bandit to hero
III. 1914-1920
The roots of the great revolutionary split
Nationalism and provincialism in the revolutionary camps
Villa and Zapata in Mexico City
General Obregón and the Mexican labor movement
The Constitutionalists prevail over Villa
Carranza in power, and the “Jacobin” response
Conclusion
II. 1910-1914
The spark: Madero’s presidential campaign
The unexpected blaze
The Zapatista tiger is loose
Madero: “Liberty will give you bread”
The thug they had hoped for
The rise of Carranza and the Constitutionalists
Pacho Villa: From bandit to hero
III. 1914-1920
The roots of the great revolutionary split
Nationalism and provincialism in the revolutionary camps
Villa and Zapata in Mexico City
General Obregón and the Mexican labor movement
The Constitutionalists prevail over Villa
Carranza in power, and the “Jacobin” response
Conclusion