The Mexican Revolution's wake : the making of a political system, 1920-1929 /
In the first weeks of 1924, in a region that many said had been left out of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920, a small army was formed by Socialists in the state of Chiapas, in far southeastern Mexico. Most of its members were likely coffee workers and poor farmers. These men did not take up arms...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Cambridge Latin American studies ;
108. |
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| Summary: | In the first weeks of 1924, in a region that many said had been left out of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920, a small army was formed by Socialists in the state of Chiapas, in far southeastern Mexico. Most of its members were likely coffee workers and poor farmers. These men did not take up arms against an oppressive, elite-led federal government as so many Mexicans had done during the Revolution. Instead, they organized and armed themselves to defend the federal government and local political institutions that they had helped to build. When Mexico's first postrevolutionary government came under attack during the de la Huerta rebellion of 1923-4, southeastern Socialists rose up in the government's defense and in defense of their rights that they believed it could best guarantee. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 285 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-276) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108415989 1108415989 |