Mexico
Subtitle: biography of power : a history of modern Mexico, 1810-1996
By: Enrique Krauze ; translated by Hank Heifetz.
Edition: 1st HarperPerennial ed.
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 872
Subjects: Mexico -- History -- 1810-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [799]-854) and index.
Table of contents: title: INTRODUCTION: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE: The centenary fiestas; title: The grito; title: The paseo and the city; title: Revolution; title: I: THE WEIGHT OF THE PAST: The children of Cuauhtemoc; title: The legacy of Cortes; title: The mestizo family; title: The Spanish crown; title: The mother church; title: II: CENTURY OF CAUDILLOS: The insurgent priests; title: The collapse of the creoles; title: The Indian shepherd and the Austrian Archduke; title: The triumph of the mestizo; title: III: REVOLUTION: Francisco I. Madero: the apostle of democracy; title: Emiliano Zapata: the born anarchist; title: Francisco Villa: between angel and iron; title: Venustiano Carranza: nationalism and the Constitution; title: Alvaro Obregon: death and the general; title: Plutarco Elias Calles: reform from the roots; title: Lazaro Cardenas: the missiionary general; title: IV: THE MODERN STATE: mANUAL Avila Camacho: the gentleman president; title: Miguel Aleman: the businessman president and the system; title: Adolfo Ruiz Cortines: the administrator; title: Adolfo Lopez Mateos: the orator; title: Gustavo Diaz Ordaz: the advocate of order; title: V: PAST AND FUTURE: THE DECLINE OF THE SYSTEM: The preacher; title: The gambler; title: Lost opportunities; title: The man who would be king; title: The theater of history.