Porfirio DiazThe 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. |
Contents
| 1 | |
Liberalism Authoritarianism and the Patriotic Struggle 185567 | 18 |
Chapter 3 The Long Road to the Presidency 186776 | 48 |
Chapter 4 Pragmatic Liberalism 187684 | 68 |
Patriarchal Liberalism 18841911 | 98 |
Chapter 6 Diplomacy Foreign Policy and International Relations 18761911 | 137 |
Economic Development 18761911 | 163 |
The Decline and Fall of the Díaz Regime 190011 | 194 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
agrarian anti-Porfirismo Anti-Re-electionist army authority became Benítez Benito Juárez Bernardo Reyes camarilla campaign candidate caudillo central century Chihuahua Church científicos Coahuila colonial conflict Congress Constitution of 1857 constitutional Cosío Villegas cultural Díaz regime Díaz's diplomatic economic elections electoral elite example factional foreign investment governor governorship Iglesias Ignacio important independence industry jefes políticos José María José Yves Limantour Krauze labour Latin America lerdista Lerdo liberal Limantour Madero Manuel González Matías Romero Memorias Mexican political Mexico City military Minister National Guard nineteenth nineteenth-century Mexico Noria Nuevo León Oaxaca organisations patriotic period Plan of Tuxtepec political peace popular Porfirian Porfirian Mexico Porfirian political Porfiriato Porfirio Díaz Porfirismo porfirista President presidential Puebla radical railway re-election rebellion reform regime's regional relations Restored Republic Revolution Revolutionary rural San Luis Potosí significant social Sonora sovereignty Spanish strategy Tehuantepec tion troops tuxtepecano Valadés Veracruz Yucatán