State Governors in the Mexican Revolution, 19101952 - Portraits in Conflict, Courage, and Corruption

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Jürgen Buchenau and William H. Beezley Klappentext This unique volume examines revolutionary Mexico's state governors-the most significant intermediaries between the national government and the people it ruled. Leading scholars study governors from ten different states of Mexico during the eventful first half of the twentieth ... Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: The Role of State Governors in the Mexican RevolutionChapter 2: Benito Juárez Maza of Oaxaca: A Revolutionary Governor?Chapter 3: Salvador Alvarado of Yucatán: Revolutionary Reforms, Revolutionary WomenChapter 4: Plutarco Elías Calles of Sonora: A Mexican JacobinChapter 5: Adalberto Tejeda of Veracruz: Radicalism and ReactionChapter 6: José Guadalupe Zuno Hernández and the Revolutionary Process in JaliscoChapter 7: Tomás Garrido Canabal of Tabasco: Road Building and Revolutionary ReformChapter 8: Marte R. Gómez of Tamaulipas: Governing Agrarian RevolutionChapter 9: Efraín Gutiérrez of Chiapas: The Revolutionary BureaucratChapter 10: Maximino Avila Camacho of PueblaChapter 11: Baltasar Leyva Mancilla of Guerrero: Learning Hegemony

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• Authors: Jurgen Buchenau, Jurgen Beezley Buchenau, Jurgen (EDT)/ Beezley Bucheneau
• Assisted by: William H. Beezley (Editor), Beezley William H. (Editor), Jurgen Buchenau (Editor), Jürgen Buchenau (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2009
• EAN: 9780742557703
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-5770-3
• No. of pages: 220
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Latin American Silhouettes; Latin American Silhouettes (Pa; Latin American Silhouettes
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Mexico, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico, History of the Americas, Social and ethical issues, Corruption in society, Latin American studies