num_pages: 269
description: The fall of Porfirio Diaz has traditionally been presented as a watershed between old and an old style repressive and conservative government, and the more democratic and representative system that flowered in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. Now this view is being challenged by a new generation of historians, who point out that Diaz originally rose to power in alliance with anti-conservative forces and was a modernising force as well as a dictator. Drawing together the threads of this revisionist reading of the Porfiriato , Garner reassesses a political career that spanned more than forty years, and examines the claims that post-revolutionary Mexico was not the break with the past that the revolutionary inheritors claimed.
language: English
title: Porfirio Díaz
titlecomplete: Porfirio Díaz
characters: Porfirio Díaz
genres: History, Biography
ratings_count: 131
series: Profiles in Power
publisher: Routledge