Sarah Osten is an assistant professor of history at the University of Vermont. She has published research on Mexican politics, the history of the Mexican Southeast, and women's suffrage.
Introduction: Mexico's search for peace and postrevolutionary political institutions
1. The socialist crucible: Yucatán, 1915-1922
2. Revolutionary laboratories: the spread of socialism across the Southeast, 1915-1923
3. Putting the system to the test: The de la Huerta rebellion in the Southeast, 1923-4
4. A harder line: socialist tabasco, 1920-27
5. The forgotten revolution: socialist Chiapas, 1924-7
6. Closing ranks: socialism and anti-reelectionism, 1925-27
7. A nation of parties
Conclusion: hard lessons.