Mexican Revolution: Genesis Under Madero

The history of a dictatorship's demise—and the many power struggles that followed on the rocky road to democracy in early twentieth-century Mexico.

The Mexican Revolution is one of the most important and ambitious sociopolitical experiments in modern times. This history by Charles C. Cumberland addresses the early years of this period, as the long dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz was finally overthrown and he was driven into exile due to the efforts of revolutionary reformer Francisco Made...