The Mexican Revolution: A Brief History with Documents / Edition 1

by Mark Wasserman

Overview

Focused on the causes, conduct, and consequences of the revolution which ended General Porfirio Diazs thirty-five year rule as dictator-president, Mexican Revolution explores the unique combination of alliances of the participants that led to the revolution along with the result — radical new constitution that demanded education for all children, redistributed land and water resources, and established progressive labor laws.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312535049
Publisher:	Bedford/St. Martin's
Publication date:	03/02/2012
Series:	Bedford Cultural Editions Series
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Mark Wasserman (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is a Professor of History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He teaches courses on the history of Latin America and its revolutions. Dr. Wasserman is the author of Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth Century Mexico: Men, Women, and War, Persistent Oligarchs: Elites and Politics in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1910–1940, and Capitalists, Caciques, and Revolution: The Native Elite and Foreign Enterprise in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1854–1911. He is also the co-author of Latin America and Its People, Second Edition, with Cheryl E. Martin, and A History of Latin America, Third Edition, with Benjamin Keen. He has previously served as President of the Council on Latin America History.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
List of maps and illustrations

PART ONE. INTRODUCTION: THE CAUSES, COURSE, AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION
The Background of the Revolution
The Origins of the Revolution
Victory, Counterrevolution, and Civil War
The Hard Life of the Revolution
The Results of the Revolution
International Ramifications
Conclusion

PART TWO. THE DOCUMENTS
1. The Causes of the Revolution
1. The Partido Liberal Mexicano, The Program of the Liberal Party, 1906
2. James Creelman, Interview with Porfirio Díaz, 1908
3. Francisco I. Madero, The Plan of San Luis Potosí, 1910
4. Emiliano Zapata, The Plan of Ayala, 1911
5. Francsico “Pancho” Villa, Dreams for a Future Mexico, ca. 1913
6. John Kenneth Turner, Barbarous Mexico, 1910
7. B. Traven, Corruption, 1921
8. José Guadalupe Posada, The Bloody Events in the City of Puebla, 1910
2. At War
9. John Reed, Villa’s Rules of War, 1914
10. John Reed, The Horrors of Battle, 1914
11. Francisco “Pancho” Villa, The Battle of Tierra Blanca, November 21, 1913
12. J. B. Treviño, A Losing General’s Perspective. ca. 1916
13. Emiliano Zapata, The Possibility of Alliance with Villa
14. Alvaro Obregón, The Battle at Celaya, April 13-15, 1915
3. Soldiers Lives
15. John Reed, The Soldaderas, 1914
16. Anthony Quinn, A Soldier’s Wife, 1972
17. Veterans of the Mexican Revolution, Experiences of the War, 1910–1920
18. Marcelo Caraveo, Fighting without Pay, 1911
19. Anita Brenner and George Leighton, Photographs of Soldiers and Soldaderas, ca. 1910-1920
20. Adelita, ca. 1910-1920
4. Civilians Lives
21. Gregorio López y Fuentes, El India, 1937
22. Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, My Village During the Revolution, 1984
23. Edith Henry, The Death of Frank Henry, 1916
24. Frank Galvan, Escaping the Revolution, 1973
5. Revolutionary Politics
25. Martín Luis Guzmán, The Eagle and the Serpent, 1928
26. Venustiano Carranza, The Agrarian Law, January 6, 1915
27. Casa de Obrero Mundial, The Pact with Carranza and the Establishment of the Red Batallions, 1915
28. Eduardo Iturbide, A Counterrevolutionary Governs the Federal District, 1914
29. Luis García Pimentel, The Oligarchy’s Perspective, 1912
30. Francisca García Ortiz, Speech to the Feminist Congress in Yucatán, 1916
6. The Revolution’s Achievements
31. Constitutional Convention, The Constitution of 1917: Article 27, 1917
32. Constitutional Convention, The Constitution of 1917: The Labor Provisions of Article 123, 1917
33. Rosalie Evans, Letters from Mexico, 1920-1923
7. International Ramifications
34. Henry Lane Wilson, Ten Tragic Days, 1913
35. Edith O’Shaughnessy, A Diplomat’s Wife, 1914
36. Walter Hines Page, The Zimmerman Telegram, 1917
37. Charles F. Simon, Testimony in Support of His Claim against the Republic of Mexico, 1919
38. Marion Letcher, American British, and Mexican Investment in Mexico, 1911
39. The United States-Mexican Commission, The Bucareli Agreements, 1923

Appendixes
A Chronology of the Mexican Revolution (1810–1940)
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography

Index

Editorial Reviews

'Professor Wasserman has assembled an outstanding collection of documents and a diverse set of historical figures that bring the Mexican Revolution to life.' - Evan Ward, Brigham Young University, USA

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