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Early in a sixteen-year sojourn in Mexico as an engineer for an American mining company, John W. F. Dulles became fascinated by the story of Mexico’s emergence as a modern nation, and was imbued with the urge to tell that story as it had not yet been told—by letting events speak for themselves, without any interpretations or appraisal. The resultant book offers an interesting paradox: it is “chronicle” in the medieval sense—a straightforward record of events in chronological order, recounted with no effort at evaluation or interpretation; yet in one aspect it is a highly personal narrative, since much of its significant new material came to Dulles as a result of personal interviews with principals of the Revolution. From them he obtained firsthand versions of events and other reminiscences, and he has distilled these accounts into a work of history characterized by thorough research and objective narration. These fascinating interviews were no more important, however, than were the author’s many hours of laborious search in libraries for accounts of the events from Carranza’s last year to Calles’ final retirement from the Mexican scene. The author read scores of impassioned versions of what transpired during these fateful years, accounts written from every point of view, virtually all of them unpublished in English and many of them documents which had never been published in any language. Combining this material with the personal reminiscences, Dulles has provided a narrative rich in its new detail, dispassionate in its presentation of facts, dramatic in its description of the clash of armies and the turbulence of rough-and-tumble politics, and absorbing in its panoramic view of a people’s struggle. In it come to life the colorful men of the Revolution —Obregón, De la Huerta, Carranza, Villa, Pani, Carillo Puerto, Morones, Calles, Portes Gil, Vasconcelos, Ortiz Rubio, Garrido Canabal, Rodríguez, Cárdenas. (Dulles’ narrative of their public actions is illumined occasionally by humorous anecdotes and by intimate glimpses.) From it emerges also, as the main character, Mexico herself, struggling for self-discipline, for economic stability, for justice among her citizens, for international recognition, for democracy. This account will be prized for its encyclopedic collection of facts and for its important clarification of many notable events, among them the assassination of Carranza, the De La Huerta revolt, the assassination of Obregón, the trial of Toral, the resignation of President Ortiz Rubio, and the break between Cárdenas and Calles. More than sixty photographs supplement the text.
Mexico - Politics and government - 1910-1946. --- Mexico --- Politics and government
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The only substantive study of Plutarco Elías Calles and the Mexican Revolution, this book traces the remarkable life story of a complex and little-understood, yet key figure in Mexico's history. Jürgen Buchenau draws on a rich array of archival evidence from Mexico, the United States, and Europe to explore Calles's origins and political trajectory, ultimately leading to his reformist, yet authoritarian presidency from 1924 to 1928. After his term as president, Calles continued to exert broad influence as his country's foremost political figure; indeed, many of the institutions and laws forged
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En junio de 1935, las Ediciones Botas de México publican Ulises criollo, el primero de los cuatro tomos de la autobiografía de josé Vasconcelos (1882-1959). El libro va a conocer inmediatamente un éxito público fulgurante, que se traduce por una serie de reimpresiones y por la publicación en la prensa mexicana de un sinfín de artículos, debates, polémicas, reproducidos en gran parte en esta edición de Ulises criollo. Es que José Vasconcelos, desterrado de México desde 1929, a raíz de su derrota fraudulenta en la elección presidencial de 1929 y llevando a partir de esta fecha una vida andariega que lo lleva de Francia y Espa–a a Argentina y estados Unidos, ne es desconocido. Ha tenido un papel político importante en la primera parte de la Revolución mexicana, al lado de Francisco Madero, y, entre 1921 y 1924, ha sido el ejemplar Ministro de Educación del Presidente Obregón, un Ministro celebrado por toda la juventud del continente latinoamericano y por muchos intelectuales del mundo entero. La autobiografía de Vasconcelos vale sobre todo por la mirada polémica que echa sobre la sociedad y el mundo político mexicanos, por una libertad de lenguaje que no vacila en aludir a sus aventuras eróticas con su amante, por la emoción sincera que prevalece en la evocación de situaciones familiares o de paisajes nacionales, y el libro ha sido presentado varias veces como la mejor "novela" mexicana de la primera mitad del siglo XX. Le edición Archivos de Ulises criollo ofrece la ventaja de confrontar las succesivas ediciones del libro con el manuscrito corregido por el mismo Vasconcelos, manuscritos que se creía perdido y que se encuentra en la biblioteca de la Univesidad de Austin (Texas). Esta confrontació permite restablecer el sentido original de varias paetes del texto adulteradas por lecturas apresuradas o equivocadas. Presenta también una seleción de críticas inéditas, un dossier reuniendo una cantidad importante y reveladora de opiniones sobre el libro, una cronología y una bibliografía actualida de la obra de José Vasconcelos.
Spanish-American literature --- Vasconcelos, José --- Statesmen --- Authors, Mexican --- Hommes d'Etat --- Ecrivains mexicains --- Biography --- Biography. --- Biographie --- Biographies --- Vasconcelos, José, --- Mexico --- Mexique --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Vasconcelos, José, --- Statesmen - Mexico - Biography --- Authors, Mexican - 20th century - Biography --- Vasconcelos, José, - 1881-1959 --- Mexico - Politics and government - 1910-1946
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Unlike other historical works, which have suggested that the national abandonment of revolutionary reform was due largely to corruption, this work reveals that often corruption had little to do with it; rather, old cultural beliefs worked their way to the surface within individuals.
Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1910-1946. --- Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1946-1970. --- Politicians -- Mexico -- Biography. --- Revolutionaries -- Mexico -- Biography. --- Revolutionaries --- Politicians --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Mexico --- Díaz Soto y Gama, Antonio. --- Soto y Gama, Antonio Díaz --- Gama, Antonio Díaz Soto y --- Politics and government
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Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- History of Latin America --- Synarchism --- Unión Nacional Sinarquista (Mexico) --- Mexico --- Politics and government --- -Sinarquism --- Synarchy --- Fascism --- Union Nacional Sinarquista (Mexico) --- UNS --- U.N.S. --- National Synarchist Union (Mexico) --- Synarchist Union, National (Mexico) --- -Synarchism --- -Union Nacional Sinarquista (Mexico) --- Meksiko --- Stany Zjednoczone Meksyku --- Meksyk --- Estados Unidos Mexicanos --- Meḳsiḳe --- Mexique (Country) --- Messico --- Méjico --- República Mexicana --- United States of Mexico --- United Mexican States --- Anáhuac --- メキシコ --- Mekishiko --- מקסיקו --- Sinarquism --- Synarchism - Mexico --- Mexico - Politics and government - 1910-1946
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