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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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The Mexican Revolution defined the sociopolitical experience of those living in Mexico in the twentieth century. Its subsequent legacy has provoked debate between those who interpret the ongoing myth of the Revolution and those who adopt the more middle-of-the-road reality of the regime after 1940. Taking account of these divergent interpretations, this Very Short Introduction offers a succinct narrative and analysis of the Revolution. Using carefully
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Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Tells how William F. Buckley Sr., father of the later-famous conservative commentator, left his native Texas as a young man in 1909 and built a fortune in the nascent oil industry while caught between revolution-racked Mexico and the United States"--
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Early in the twentieth century, amid the myths of progress and modernity that underpinned Mexico's ruling party, some three hundred Chinese immigrants-close to half of the Cantonese residents of the newly founded city of Torreón-were massacred over the course of three days. It is considered the largest slaughter of Chinese people in the history of the Americas, but more than a century later, the facts continue to be elusive, mistaken, and repressed....
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"From bestselling author Jeff Guinn, the dramatic story of how U.S.-Mexico border tensions erupted into open warfare in 1916, as a U.S. military expedition crossed the border to try to capture Mexican guerrilla Pancho Villa -- a military incursion whose effects still haunt the border region to this day"--
1916. After Pancho Villa's bloody raid on a small US border town, the "Punitive Expedition" was launched in retaliation. Under Pershing's command...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Rebel historian" Kelly Lytle Hern�andez reframes our understanding of U.S. history in this groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands. Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a brilliant but ill-tempered radical named Ricardo Flores Mag�on, the magonistas were a motley band of journalists, miners, migrant workers, and more,...
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