Porfirio Díaz /
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| Author / Creator: | Garner, Paul H. |
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| Imprint: | Harlow, England ; New York : Longman, 2001. |
| Description: | ix, 269 p. : map ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Profiles in power Profiles in power (London, England) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4509574 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 269 p. : map ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-239) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0582292670 |