The Mexican Revolution: Porfirians, Liberals and Peasants

by Alan Knight

Book Overview

The Mexican Revolution was like no other: it was fueled by no vanguard party, no coherent ideology, no international ambitions; and ultimately it served to reinforce rather than to subvert many of the features of the old regime it overthrew. Alan Knight argues that a populist uprising brought about the fall of longtime dictator Porfirio D az in 1910. It was one of those "relatively rare episodes in history when the mass of the people profoundly influenced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803277709
• ISBN13: 9780803277700
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 620 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"