La ideología de la Revolución Mexicana

El asesinato de Álvaro Obregón desencadenó una profunda crisis en el estado mexicano que se prolongó hasta mediados de 1935. Este volumen analiza los principales sucesos de la época: la superación del caudillismo, la derrota de la revolución escobarista, los efectos de la crisis mundial sobre la economía nacional y la más importante lucha política e ideológica que libra el poder político desde 1917. La clase obrera desempeña un papel muy activo, aunque resiente profundamente la crisis: despidos en masa, reducción de jornadas y de salarios, miseria, hambre y represión.

Narrative extends only to the close of 1828, having been left incomplete at the death of the author. -- cf. Advertencia al lector, 1 leaf at end.

"Examines the role of public investment in Mexican decentralization at the national, state (Jalisco), and local (municipio) levels. Studies spatial pattern of public investment in Mexico with many graphs, maps, and commentary on the politics of public investment"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

"Examines Madero's economic ideas and his approach to various economic issues, including labor-management relations, agrarian reform, and fiscal policy. Argues that Madero's economic policies fell somewhere between 19th-century Liberalism and a more modern interventionism"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

In this new telling of Mexico's Second Empire and Louis Napoléon's installation of Maximilian von Habsburg and his wife, Carlota of Belgium, as the emperor and empress of Mexico, Maximilian and Carlota brings the dramatic, interesting, and tragic time of this six-year-siege to life. From 1861 to 1866, the French incorporated the armies of Austria, Belgium--including forces from Crimea to Egypt--to fight and subdue the regime of Mexico's Benito Juárez during the time of the U.S. Civil War. France viewed this as a chance to seize Mexican territory in a moment they were convinced the...