Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
Recounting the decade of bloody events that followed the eruption of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, this chronicle of the first seismic social convulsion of the twentieth century explores the regional, international, cultural, racial, and economic strife that made the rebels Francisco (Pancho) Villa and Emiliano Zapata legends in their time. Fast-paced and fascinating, at once a dual biography and a history, Villa and Zapata vividly illuminates the...
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
Krauze is a well-known Mexican literary and historical author who has worked with and written for the important Mexican magazine Vuelta since its inception. His well-translated work, originally published in Mexico as three separate volumes, offers a readable history of the country since independence in 1810. Krauze first identifies themes that permeate Mexican history, e.g., the concentration of power, the role of the church, and the importance of...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Description
"The Mexican Revolution was the first great popular upheaval of the twentieth century, beginning modestly as an attempt to reform an oligarchic state, but building into a complex and violent struggle. Adolfo Gilly has written the definitive study of a critical stage in Mexico's history, spanning the years between the first peasant uprising against the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz and Alvaro Obregon's inauguration as president in 1920, the event that...
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
A grand narratiave driven by three thousand years of history; the Indian world, the Spanish invasion, Independence, the 1910 Revolution, the tragic lives of workers in assembly plants along the border, and the experiences of millions of Mexicans who live in the United States.
.png)