Mexican Revolution: The Constitutionalist YearsThe Mexican Revolution is one of the most important and ambitious sociopolitical experiments in modem times. The Revolution developed in three distinct stages: the overthrow of the Diaz dictatorship, the subsequent era of bloodshed and devastation during which radical ideas were written into the constitution, and the much longer span during which the ideas have been put into practice. The present volume covers the first stage of this development. Idealistic, patriotic hacendado Francisco I. Madero became the catalyst of the Revolution. All peaceful means having failed to secure democratic elections, Madero reluctantly undertook to mold the discontented factions into an effective force for insurrection. But victory brought disunity. Opposition to the Diaz regime, not a positive desire for reform, had held the revolutionaries together. Diaz deposed, Madero could not muster sufficient support to realize more than a fraction of his objectives, and he himself fell victim to counterrevolution. |
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... Tampico , choosing instead the rough route over the mountains to Tula . In the mountains the army virtually aban ... Tampico rail line . While in Cerritos , Arzamendi was ordered to the defense of Tampico , under attack as of December 10 ...
... Tampico , 27 with one column of troops tolled off to cut the rail line running west to San Luis Potosí . In the last few days before the actual assault began , a steady stream of foreign representatives , in- cluding U.S. Admiral Henry ...
... Tampico under constant and dangerous threat.206 He would have preferred to tarry just a little longer , build- ing up his force and his supplies , before risking his much smaller army in a confrontation with Villa , had it not been for ...
Contents
The Armies Roll | 23 |
On the Political Front | 58 |
Huerta and Wilson | 84 |
Copyright | |
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