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The Mexican Revolution, Volume 1: Porfirians, Liberals, and Peasants
Alan Knight
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Paperback. Shows how urban liberals joined in uneasy alliance with agrarian interests to install Francisco Madero as president and how his attempts to bring constitutional democracy to Mexico were doomed by counter-revolutionary forces. This title illuminates on all levels, local and national, the complex history of an era. Num Pages: 620 pages, Maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 40. Weight in Grams: 943.
The Mexican Revolution was like no other: it was fueled by no vanguard party, no coherent ideology, no international ambitions; and ultimately it served to reinforce rather than to subvert many of the features of the old regime it overthrew. Alan Knight argues that a populist uprising brought about the fall of longtime dictator Porfirio Díaz in 1910. It was one of those "relatively rare episodes in history when the mass of the people profoundly influenced events." In this first of two volumes Knight shows how urban liberals joined in uneasy alliance with agrarian interests to install Francisco Madero as president ... Read more
The Mexican Revolution was like no other: it was fueled by no vanguard party, no coherent ideology, no international ambitions; and ultimately it served to reinforce rather than to subvert many of the features of the old regime it overthrew. Alan Knight argues that a populist uprising brought about the fall of longtime dictator Porfirio Díaz in 1910. It was one of those "relatively rare episodes in history when the mass of the people profoundly influenced events." In this first of two volumes Knight shows how urban liberals joined in uneasy alliance with agrarian interests to install Francisco Madero as president ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
620
Condition
New
Number of Pages
648
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803277700
SKU
V9780803277700
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About Alan Knight
Alan Knight is Professor of Latin American History, Oxford University, and Director of the Latin American Centre, St. Antony's College, Oxford.
Reviews for The Mexican Revolution, Volume 1: Porfirians, Liberals, and Peasants
"Masterly. . . . One of the best books in the entire literature on the sociology of revolution."—W. G. Runciman, London Review of Books "Shows great originality and is the closest thing to date to a definitive history written by a single author. . . . The empiricist quality of this book may turn him into the next authority, the ... Read more