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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.

Barbarous Mexico is a blistering probe into power and impunity during the Porfirio Diaz era. This is urgent, unflinching reporting. John Kenneth Turner's investigative journalism classic combines clear, forceful prose with forensic attention to detail: a political expose book... Read Full Overview

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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