Stuart Easterling

The Mexican Revolution

A Short History, 1910-1920

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Produktbeschreibung

Why did the Mexican Revolution happen? What makes it distinctive? Was it even a revolution at all?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 192mm x 134mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 194g
• ISBN-13: 9781608461820
• ISBN-10: 1608461823
• Artikelnr.: 34390628

Autorenporträt

Stuart Easterling is a Ph.D. candidate in Mexican History at the University of Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

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