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"I found Mexico to be a land where the people are poor because they have no rights, where peonage is the rule for the great mass, and where actual chattel slavery obtains for hundreds of thousands." ― John Kenneth Turner, Barbarous Mexico In Barbarous Mexico (1911), John... Read Full Overview

El esclavismo en las tabacaleras y en las plantaciones de henequ?n; el sistema usado por los caciques para obtener mano de obra barata; la condici?n de los yaquis, y el origen de las revueltas son parte de los temas que encontrar?s en esta obra. Un ensayo pol?tico de gran sentido... Read Full Overview

A searing glimpse behind the facade of early 1900s Mexico, John Kenneth Turner's Barbarous Mexico exposes a world of dictatorship and oppression that few outsiders dared to document. With the precision of early 20th century journalism and the courage of a true muckraker, Turner's... Read Full Overview

An early 20th century American journalist's articles on Mexico before the Revolution.

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American historians preoccupied with the stirring events of the Mexican Revolution and the years following tend to neglect the basic causes of the conflict. John Kenneth Turner-a crusading California newspaperman-presents these causes with brilliance and passion in Barbarous... Read Full Overview