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Plutarco Elías Calles and the Mexican Revolution by Jürgen Buchenau Pdf
This biography of the Mexican revolutionary examines his rise from soldier to president to his continued influence as Jefe Maximo. Hailing from the border state of Sonora, Plutarco Elías Calles found his calling in the early years of the revolution, quickly rising to national prominence. As president from 1924 to 1928, Calles undertook an ambitious reform program, modernized the financial system, and defended national sovereignty against an interventionist U.S. government. Yet these reforms failed to eradicate underdevelopment, corruption, and social injustice. Moreover, his unyielding campaigns against political enemies and the Catholic Church earned him a reputation as a repressive strongman. After his term as president, Calles continued to exert broad influence as his country's foremost political figure while three weaker presidents succeeded each other in an atmosphere of constant political crisis. He played a significant role in founding a ruling party that reined in power-hungry military leaders and helped workers attain better living conditions. This dynastic party and its successors, including the present-day Partido Revolucionario Institucional (Party of the Institutional Revolution), remained in power until 2000. Through this comprehensive assessment of a quintessential Mexican politician, Buchenau opens an illuminating window into both the Mexican Revolution and contemporary Mexico.
The Last Caudillo presents a brief biography of the life and times of General Alvaro Obregón, along with new insights into the Mexican Revolution and authoritarian rule in Latin America. Features a succinct biography of the life and times of a fascinating figure in Mexico's revolutionary past Represents the most analytical and up-to-date study of caudillo/military strongman rule Sheds new light on the networks and discourse practices that support rulers such as the Castros in Cuba and Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, and the emergence of modern Mexico Offers new insights into the role of leadership, the nature of revolution, and the complex forces that helped shape modern Mexico
Author : William H. Beezley,Colin M. MacLachlan Publisher : U of Nebraska Press Page : 201 pages File Size : 45,7 Mb Release : 2009-01-01 Category : History ISBN : 9780803224698
Mexicans in Revolution, 1910-1946 by William H. Beezley,Colin M. MacLachlan Pdf
On November 20, 1910, Mexicans initiated the world?s first popular social revolution. The unbalanced progress of the previous regime triggered violence and mobilized individuals from all classes to demand social and economic justice. In the process they shaped modern Mexico at a cost of two million lives.
The Sonoran Dynasty in Mexico by Jürgen Buchenau Pdf
Jürgen Buchenau tells the story of the Sonoran dynasty in the Mexican Revolution. Between 1920 and 1934 the governments over which they ruled helped determine how far the revolution would go in implementing a nationalist and anticlerical constitution, and they also created the political blueprint for postrevolutionary Mexico.
State Governors in the Mexican Revolution, 1910–1952 by Jürgen Buchenau,William H. Beezley Pdf
This unique book traces Mexico's eventful years from 1910 to 1952 through the experiences of its state governors. During this seminal period, revolutionaries destroyed the old regime, created a new national government, built an official political party, and then discarded in practice the essence of their revolution. In this tumultuous time, governors—some of whom later became president—served as the most significant intermediaries between the national government and the people it ruled. Leading scholars study governors from ten different states to demonstrate the diversity of the governors' experiences implementing individual revolutionary programs over time, as well as the waxing and waning of strong governorship as an institution that ultimately disappeared in the powerful national regime created in the 1940s and 1950s. Until that time, the contributors convincingly argue, the governors provided the revolution with invaluable versatility by dealing with pressing issues of land, labor, housing, and health at the local and regional levels. The flexibility of state governors also offered test cases for the implementation of national revolutionary laws and campaigns. The only book that considers the state governors in comparative perspective, this invaluable study offers a fresh view of regionalism and the Revolution. Contributions by: William H. Beezley, Jürgen Buchenau, Francie R. Chassen-López, Michael A. Ervin, María Teresa Fernández Aceves, Paul Gillingham, Kristin A. Harper, Timothy Henderson, David LaFrance, Stephen E. Lewis, Stephanie J. Smith, and Andrew Grant Wood.
The Mexican Revolution by Jurgen Buchenau,Timothy Henderson Pdf
"Henderson and Buchenau have done an excellent and thoughtful job of collecting a wide range of voices for students to learn about the Mexican Revolution and its causes, both from ‘above’ and from ‘below’. I’m particularly appreciative of the authors’ inclusion of women’s voices and women’s issues of the era, including the point of view of the first woman elected to public office in Mexico. They deserve praise for including documents that complicate widely accepted, heroic revolutionary narratives of the period for students—such as the experience of soldaderas and the massacre of Chinese people in Torreón. It is also worth mentioning that the editors have done an admirable job in choosing documents from across Mexico’s many diverse and heterogenous regions. The general Introduction is excellent; it is both accurate and highly readable for students. It is no easy feat to succinctly describe both the events and the significance of this period in Mexican history as the authors have done here." —Sarah Osten, The University of Vermont
In the Shadow of the Mexican Revolution by Héctor Aguilar Camín,Lorenzo Meyer Pdf
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 subsequent collapse, and the recent transition toward a new historical period. The authors explore Mexico’s turbulent recent history as it becomes increasingly intertwined with that of the United States. First published in Spanish as A la sombra de la Revolución Mexicana, this English-language edition offers US readers an intelligent and accessible study of their neighbor to the south.
Mexico Before the World by Plutarco Ellas Calles Pdf
BEFORE THE WORLD- Public Documents and Addresses of PLUTARCO ELIAS CALLES. Translated from the Spanish and edited by ROBERT HAMMOND MURRAY. Originally published in 1927. FOREWORD: This compilation of a portion of the public docu ments and addresses of President Calles has been made with the object of providing an adequate and a convenient reference source for the benefit of those who seek authoritative information upon the man and his work and upon topics relevant to the present state of governmental, social, economic and kindred conditions in Mexico. It constitutes a pres entation and a record of the official and personal aspirations of the President and also of the govern ment and the masses of Mexico upon national neces sities and problems, and especially in matters which concern Mexicos international relations. In this book answers will be found to virtually all of the questions upon which illumination may be desired by persons who are interested in knowing what is being done in Mexico and why, and in the develop ment of President Calles programme of reform and reconstruction. New York, December, 1927. President Plutarco Elias Calles, who at present is directing the destinies of the Mexican people, is an exceptional states man, a notable personality in every way, a man worthy of the admiration of culti oated intellects Educated in modern socialistic ideas and conscious of the des tinies of his country, General Calles is establishing a government of reparation and justice and leading Mexico along proper lines in the direction of social re forms. Hence he is supported by millions of workmen and tillers of the soil who rep resent the vital forces of the country. Few elements in Mexico are in opposition to his great and fruitful programme of national reconstruction, which should serve as an example to all the nations of America. MEXICO IN NEWS AND IN FACT E. Gomez de Baquero, in El Sol, Madrid, December 25, 1926. Each week, if not more frequently, the cable brings sensational information from Mexico of Indian uprisings, popular dis turbances, military revolts, bloody official repressions, threats of war with the United States. Later most of these reports are authoritatively denied, but in the meantime they have gone the rounds of the press of the world, transmitted by the news agencies of the United States. This anthology of disasters, as Alfonso Reyes remarked during his lectures at Lyons, is too systematic to be free from the suspicion of being inspired. One does not need to be a seer to perceive in this press cam paign against Mexico an incongruous mix ture of oil and holy water and the irrita tion of Big Business, of the captains and sergeants of industry, before the sight of Mexico defending its petroleum, its mines and its agriculture from foreign economic domination and also the opposition of the Catholic Church against the laws of secu larization, which last, perhaps, is creating more clamor outside of Mexico than within the country itself. This coincidence of temporal and spiritual motives is not sur prising. Are the Knights of Columbus not seeking to organize a Protestant crusade, considering that the Protestants are in a majority in the United States, to aid the Catholic Church against Mexico and its obstinate determination not to permit the monopolization of oil or of conscience The poet Lopez Velarde was correct when he told the Mexicans that the oil deposits in that country were the gift of the devil...
The Wind that Swept Mexico by Anita Brenner,George Ross Leighton Pdf
The photographs were assembled from many sources by George R. Leighton with the assistance of Anita Brenner and others. Many of the prints were cleaned and rephotographed by the distinguished photographer Walker Evans.
