Cortés

JOHNSON, William Weber

Hutchinson

When Porfirio Diaz left Mexico in disgrace in 1911 after four decades of autocratic rule, an era of revolutionary wildfire began which was to flare and smolder for the next thirty years. William Weber Johnson chronicles the intense patriotism and economic opportunism, the reform and corruption, the idealism and violence that shaped revolutionary politics through the main characters of that epoch: Enrique Flores Magon, theorist and revolutionary firebrand; Francisco Madero, idealist and bandit and skillful tactician; Emiliano Zapata, peasant organizer and legendary general; Venustiano Carranza, the Machiavellian First chief of the Revolution. The ultimate emergence of Lazaro Cardenas and the founding of the institutional Revolutionary Party began a period of stability that has only recently been threatened by Mexico's exploding population and staggering foreign debt. The story of Mexico in the twentieth century is a prologue to the future of the Americas.

Heroic Mexico: The Violent Emergence of a Modern Nation

History

Americas

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

The best single volume account of the Mexican (aka: Madero) Revolution written. The Mexican Revolution began when Francisco Madero challenged incumbent President Porfirio Díaz in the 1910 elections. Díaz arrested Madero and staged fraudulent elections, but Madero had united a broad base of pro-democracy, anti-re-electionists who sought an end to the Díaz regime, including Francisco "Pancho" Villa (1878-1923), a Mexican Revolutionary general and one of the most prominent figures of the Mexican Revolution. The Mexican Revolution was a major armed struggle c. 1910-1920 radically transforming Mexican culture and government. Although recent research has focused on local and regional aspects of the Revolution, it was a "genuinely national revolution". Its outbreak in 1910 resulted from the failure of the 35-year-long regime of Porfirio Díaz to find a managed solution to the presidential succession. This book is a comprehensive and well-researched history of this time.

DOUBLEDAY

After unsuccessful attempts at many careers, H. O. "Cowboy" Kelly had little to show except a rich store of memories of an America fast disappearing then and gone today. He translated those memories into paintings of the pleasures and toil of a rural society. The details of Kelly's life are in sharp contrast with his nostalgic paintings, but an irrepressible optimism and humor highlight both the paintings and William Johnson's chronicle of Kelly's life. The result is a charming presentation of nineteenth-century romantic who by accident of fate made himself a niche as artist in twentieth-century America.

Kelly Blue

Biographies & Memoirs

Univ of Nebraska Pr

Book is used and has been withdrawn from service from a Library. Book has a Library Binding and the usual Library Stamps, Stickers, Card Holder, Library Markings. May or May Not have a Dust Jacket.

Baja California

Time-Life, Incorporated

Children's Books

Time-Life Education

Published by Time Life (1974), hardback, no dj, Embossed letherette with pictorial label, profusely illustrated, index.

The Old West: The Forty-Niners

Time

After unsuccessful attempts at many careers, H. O. "Cowboy" Kelly had little to show except a rich store of memories of an America fast disappearing then and gone today. He translated those memories into paintings of the pleasures and toil of a rural society. The details of Kelly's life are in sharp contrast with his nostalgic paintings, but an irrepressible optimism and humor highlight both the paintings and William Johnson's chronicle of Kelly's life. The result is a charming presentation of nineteenth-century romantic who by accident of fate made himself a niche as artist in twentieth-century America.

Historical

Texas A&M University Press

Cortes: Conquering the New World

World

Paragon_House

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