The Wind That Swept Mexico - The History of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1942

The Mexican Revolution began in 1910 with the overthrow of dictator Porfirio Diaz. The Wind That Swept Mexico, originally published in 1943, was the first book to present a broad account of that revolution in its several different phases. In concise but moving words and in memorable photographs, this classic sweeps the reader along from the false peace and plenty of the Diaz era through the doomed administration of Madero, the chaotic years of Villa and Zapata, Carranza and Obregon, to the peaceful social revolution of Cardenas and Mexico's entry into World War II.

List of contents

• I. Winds Sweeping the World
• II. Fall of a Dictator
• III. Upheaval
• IV. Mexico for the Mexicans
• V. The Photographic History of the Mexican Revolution
• Some Important Dates in Mexican History
• Sources
• Index

About the author

Anita Brenner, author of Idols behind Altars and a number of children's books, was born in Mexico and lived there for many years. During the Spanish Civil War she wrote dispatches from Spain for the New York Times and the Nation and for many years she edited the magazine Mexico This Month.

Summary

First book to present a broad account of the Mexican Revolution in its several different phases

Product details

• Authors: Anita Brenner, George R. Leighton
• Assisted by: George R. Leighton (Photographs)
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1971
• EAN: 9780292790247
• ISBN: 978-0-292-79024-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 243 mm x 180 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 628 g
• Series: Texas Pan American Series; Texas Pan American Series; Texas Pan American
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, History - General History, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico