num_pages: 620
description: The Mexican Revolution was like no 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 Díaz in 1910. It was one of those "relatively rare episodes in history when the mass of the people profoundly influenced events." In this first of two volumes Knight shows how urban liberals joined in uneasy alliance with agrarian interests to install Francisco Madero as president and how his attempts to bring constitutional democracy to Mexico were doomed by counter-revolutionary forces. The Mexican Revolution illuminates on all levels, local and national, the complex history of an era. Rejecting fashionable Marxist and revisionist interpretations, it comes as close as any work can to being definitive.
language: English
title: The Mexican Revolution, Volume 1: Porfirians, Liberals, and Peasants
titlecomplete: The Mexican Revolution, Volume 1: Porfirians, Liberals, and Peasants
genres: Latin American History, History
ratings_count: 43
series: Cambridge Latin American Studies, The Mexican Revolution
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Albert J. Beveridge Award, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Bolton-Johnson Prize
publisher: University of Nebraska Press