The fall of Porfirio Diaz has traditionally been presented as a watershed between old and new: an old style repressive and conservative government, and the more democratic and representative system that flowered in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. Now this view is being challenged by a new generation of historians, who point out that Diaz originally rose to power in alliance with anti-conservative forces and was a modernising force as well as a dictator. Drawing together the threads of this revisionist reading of the Porfiriato, Garner reassesses a political career that spanned more than forty years, and examines the claims that post-revolutionary Mexico was not the break with the past that the revolutionary inheritors claimed.
Author: Paul Garner
Publisher: Routledge
Publish Date: 2001-08-02
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0582292670
ISBN 13: 9780582292673
Dimension: Length: 5.43306 inches, Width: 0.64 inches, Height: 8.50392 inches
Weight: Weight: 0.89948602896 pounds
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
The fall of Porfirio Diaz has traditionally been presented as a watershed between old and new: an old style repressive and conservative government, and the more democratic and representative system that flowered in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. Now this view is being challenged by a new generation of historians, who point out that Diaz originally rose to power in alliance with anti-conservative forces and was a modernising force as well as a dictator. Drawing together the threads of this revisionist reading of the Porfiriato, Garner reassesses a political career that spanned more than forty years, and examines the claims that post-revolutionary Mexico was not the break with the past that the revolutionary inheritors claimed.
Author: Paul Garner
Publisher: Routledge
Publish Date: 2001-08-02
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0582292670
ISBN 13: 9780582292673
Dimension: Length: 5.43306 inches, Width: 0.64 inches, Height: 8.50392 inches
Weight: Weight: 0.89948602896 pounds
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280