In the Shadow of the Mexican Revolution: Contemporary Mexican History, 1910-1989

An authoritative and comprehensive history of post-revolutionary Mexico by two of the country's leading intellectuals.

Héctor Aguilar Camín and Lorenzo Meyer set out to fill a void in the literature on Mexican history: the lack of a single text to cover the history of Mexico during the twentieth century. In the Shadow of the Mexican Revolution, covers the Mexican Revolution itself, the gradual consolidation of institutions, the Cárdenas regime, the "Mexican economic miracle" and its subsequ...