I have not recently picked up a book about twentieth-century Mexico from which I learned so much.
New Mexico Historical Review
Mexico in the 1940s tells a gripping story of high-level national and international politics that students of Mexico need to read.
Mary Kay Vaughan, University of Maryland, College Park; author of Cultural Politics in Revolution Stephen ... Read moreNiblo has recorded startling and fascinating discoveries which flesh out a crucial decade that to date has been largely ignored in Mexican historical studies.
Paul Vanderwood Niblo uses a wide range of sources to pull together a clear and meaningful presentation of key personalities and events of the time. Especially helpful for graduate students and those who seek to understand the complex and often contradictory movement known as the Mexican Revolution.
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Niblo provides the reader with a detailed picture of personal and political relationships, scandals and corruption, electoral fraud and violence, and politics and policy in the Mexico of the 1940s.
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