The Mexican Revolution: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture) - Softcover

Wasserman, M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 031253504X ISBN 13: 9780312535049

Verlag: Bedford/Saint Martin's, 2012

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During the Mexican Revolution a remarkable alliance of peasants, working and middle classes, and elites banded together to end General Porfirio Diaz’s thirty-five year rule as dictator-president and created a radical new constitution that demanded education for all children, redistributed land and water resources, and established progressive labour laws.

In this collection, Mark Wasserman examines the causes, conduct, and consequences of the revolution and carefully untangles the shifting alliances of the participants. In his introduction Wasserman outlines the context for the revolution, rebels’ differing goals for land redistribution, and the resulting battles between rebel leaders and their generals. He also examines daily life and the conduct of the revolution, as well as its national and international legacy.

The accompanying selected sources offer insight into the reasons for fighting, the politics behind the war, and the revolution’s international legacy.

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MARK WASSERMAN Professor of History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA. He has previously served as President of the Council on Latin America History.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bedford/Saint Martin's
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 031253504X
• ISBN 13: 9780312535049
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
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