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University of California Press

Revolutionary Mexico

The Coming and Process of the Mexican Revolution, Tenth Anniversary edition

by John Mason Hart (Author)
Price: $34.95 / £30.00
Publication Date: Dec 1997
Edition: 1st Edition
Title Details:
Rights: World
Pages: 478
ISBN: 9780520215313
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Illustrations: 16 b/w photographs, 6 maps

About the Book

This acclaimed reinterpretation of the Mexican Revolution, based on new evidence obtained in Mexican and American archives and on the historical literature of recent years, is available here in the tenth anniversary edition, complete with a new Preface by the author.

About the Author

John Mason Hart is Professor of History at the University of Houston. His previous books include Revolutionary Mexico: The Coming and Process of the Mexican Revolution, Tenth Anniversary edition (California 1998).

Table of Contents

Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition
Preface
Introduction

PART I: THE ANCIEN REGIME
ONE: The Peasantry
TWO: The Industrial and Urban Workers
THREE: The Pequefia Burguesia and Provincial Elites
FOUR: The Seizure of Power: Porfirio Diaz, American Expansion,
and the Revolution of Tuxtepec
FIVE: The Growth of the Porfirian Economy and the American
Intrusion
SIX: The Crisis of the Porfirian Political Economy
SEVEN: Global Causation: Iran, China, Russia, and Mexico

PART II: THE REVOLUTION
EIGIIT: Elite Crisis and Mass Mobilization, 1910-1914
NINE: Class Confrontation, American Intervention, and Workers'
Defeat, 1914-1916
TEN: Elite Synthesis and Sociopolitical Reorganization,
1916-1924

Conclusion
Epilogue
Notes
Notes on Archival Sources
Bibliography
Index

Reviews

"This is the best book on Mexico I have ever seen. . . . The author's achievement, I believe is not merely in the remarkably deep and sustained use of new information, but, equally, in his success in envisioning the sweeping analysis which he then carries through the whole work."—Clifton B. Kroeber, Occidental College

Awards

  • The Harvey Johnson Book Award 1988, Southwestern Council on Latin American Studies