The Mexican Revolution
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Mexican Revolution of 1910, the popular uprising which lasted ten years and resulted in the overthrow of President Porfino Diaz.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Mexican Revolution.In 1908 the President of Mexico, Porfirio Diaz, gave an interview to an American journalist. He was 77 and had ruled the country in autocratic fashion for over thirty years. He discussed the country's economic development and spoke of his intention to retire to his country estate after overseeing a transition to multiparty democracy.Things did not turn out quite like that. Two years later Diaz was toppled by a popular uprising. It was the beginning of a tumultuous decade in which different factions fought for supremacy, and power changed hands many times. The conflict completely changed the face of the country, and resulted in the emergence of Mexico's most celebrated folk hero: Emiliano Zapata.With:Alan KnightProfessor of the History of Latin America at the University of OxfordPaul GarnerCowdray Professor of Spanish at the University of LeedsPatience SchellSenior Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester. Producer: Thomas Morris.
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FURTHER READING
B. Hamnett, 鈥楢 Concise History of Mexico鈥� (CUP, Cambridge, 1999)
L. Meyer & H. Aguilar, 鈥業n the Shadow of the Mexican Revolution: Contemporary Mexican History 1910-89鈥� (Austin, Texas, 1993)
S. Brunk, 鈥�Emiliano Zapata!: Revolution and Betrayal聽in Mexico鈥� (University of New Mexico Press,聽1995)
S. Brunk, 鈥楾he Posthumous Career of Emiliano Zapata: Myth, Memory, and Mexico鈥檚 Twentieth Century鈥� (University of Texas Press, 2008)
P. Garner, 鈥楶orfirio D铆az鈥� (Longman, Harlow, 2001)
J. Hart, 鈥楻evolutionary Mexico: The Coming and Process of the Mexican Revolution鈥� (Stanford, 1987)
A. Knight, 鈥楾he Mexican Revolution鈥� (CUP, Cambridge, 2 vols., 1986)
T. Benjamin, 鈥楲a Revoluci贸n: Mexico鈥檚 Great Revolution as Memory, Myth and History鈥� (Austin, Texas, 2000)
J. Brown, 鈥極il and Revolution in Mexico鈥� (Berkeley CA, 1993)
F. Katz, 鈥楾he Life and Times of Pancho Villa鈥� (Stanford, 1998)
J. Womak, 鈥榋apata and the Mexican Revolution鈥� (Thames and Hudson, London, 1968)
A. Warman, 鈥榃e Come to Object: The Peasants of Morelos and the NationalState鈥� (The John Hopkins University Press, 1980)
Stephanie Mitchell & Patience A. Schell (eds.), 鈥楾he Women鈥檚 Revolution in Mexico, 1910-1953鈥� (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006)
Jocelyn Olcott, Mary Kay Vaughan and Gabriela Cano (eds.), 鈥楽ex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico鈥� (Duke University Press, 2006)
Matthew Butler, 鈥楶opular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico鈥檚 Cristero Rebellion鈥� (OUP, 2004)
M. Werner (ed.), 鈥楨ncyclopaedia of Mexico: History, Society, Culture鈥� (Fitzroy Dearborn, Chicago, 2 vols., 1997)
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