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Title: The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940 (Dialogos Series, 12) by Michael J. Gonzales ISBN: 0-8263-2780-X Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Pub. Date: March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Solid background, but Revolution seems overdetermined
Comment: Gonzales' mastery of details is excellent. He puts the Revolution in historical context, outlining both the longterm trends leading up the Revolution and the momentum of the revolutionary project even after the bloodshed had subsided. However, the weakness of Gonzales' account is his interpretation of the Revolution as inevtiable. Relying on a traditional method of examining key historical events, Gonzales depicts a near linear progression towards a Revolution. Seemingly every fault of the Porfiriato is added to the mountain of evidence that suggested a violent social upheaval was the only possible outcome in turn-of-the-century Mexico. Gonzales does not consider the possibility that there were fluctuations in pressure in the years leading up the Revolution, and that only a confluence of several factors made the event possible. The Diaz regime was not as universally 'bad' as Gonzales makes it out to be: there was not such a precipitous decline in the conditions of the poor. While the conditions of the masses did deteriorate during the liberal dictatorship, it was the coming together of a recession and a devastating drought, and the failure of Diaz to provide an adequate response, that led to the revolutionary explosion of 1910.
Rating: 5
Summary: A recommended, basic library pick
Comment: This history of Mexico's revolutionary era is a recommended, basic library pick for any high school or college-level library with resources on Mexican history and culture. Gonzales considers not only the events but the foundations of the revolution where were laid back in 1911 when the Diaz dictatorship prompted resentment and restlessness. His interpretation is meant to embrace different experiences and interests and provides a well-rounded and clear portrait of Mexican revolutionary events.
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Title: Villa and Zapata: A History of the Mexican Revolution by Frank McLynn ISBN: 0786710888 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: In the Shadow of the Mexican Revolution : Contemporary Mexican History, 1910-1989 by Héctor Aguilar Camín, Lorenzo Meyer ISBN: 0292704518 Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: 1993 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course, and Legacy by Marifeli Perez-Stable ISBN: 0195127498 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Wind that Swept Mexico by Anita Brenner, George R. Leighton ISBN: 0292790244 Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: 1984 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean by Aldo Lauria-Santiago, Aviva Chomsky, Aldo A. Lauria Santiago ISBN: 0822322188 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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