The Mexican Revolution : a short history, 1910-1920 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Easterling, Stuart
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Ill. : Haymarket Books, [2012]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Setting the stage. Politics and economics before 1910
  • Campesinos and villages before 1910
  • Mexican urban labor before 1910
  • The Revolution : many different pieces in motion
  • 1910-1914. The spark : Madero's presidential campaign
  • The unexpected blaze
  • The Zapatista tiger is loose
  • The death of the Liberal Revolution
  • The thug they had hoped for
  • The rise of Carranza and the constitutionalists
  • Pancho Villa : from bandit to hero
  • 1914-1920. The roots of the great revolutionary split
  • Obregón and the revolutionary "Jacobins"
  • Nationalism and provincialism in the revolutionary camps
  • Hearts and minds in Mexico City : Villa and Zapata
  • Hearts and minds in Mexico City : Obregón
  • The constitutionalists prevail over Villa
  • Carranza in power and the Jacobin response
  • Conclusion
  • Timeline of major events.