La Revolución
Mexico's Great Revolution as Memory, Myth, and History
Publication Year: 2000
Published by: University of Texas Press
Contents
Preface
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pp. ix-xi
I have been reading the Mexican revolution for more than twenty- five years. During the 1980s I summarized what I was beginning to learn in historiographical essays. Historiography led me back through the few generations of historians who have narrated, researched, and interpreted...
The Pantheon of National Heroes
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pp. 1-8
These historical figures are mentioned throughout the book. This list does not include all national heroes, only those that have the most resonance in Mexican patriotic discourse. ...
Chronology of Events, 1810-1910
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pp. 9-12
Introduction: The Revolution with a Capital Letter
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pp. 13-23
We Mexicans make a distinction, one of Mexico's most well-known political leaders, Moises Saenz, explained in 1929, "between the Revolution with a capital and revolutions with a small letter."1 The Revolution with a capital letter, he intended to convey, was commendable and justified, almighty...
Chronology of Events, 1911-1928
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pp. 25-29
Part One: CONSTRUCTION
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pp. 31-35
What follows is the history of la Revolucion as invented and constructed by the voceros de la Revolucion, who produced revolutionary speeches, manifestos, and other writings in the Mexico of the 1910s and 1920s. Nearly every scrap of public political language in the period included some representation of the...
1. 1911-1913: "Every Event's Name Is Itself an Interpretation."
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pp. 37-48
Mexican revolutionaries carried on an uninterrupted discourse of memory during the 1910s and 1920s. From the beginning of the revolutionary movement, these voceros de la Revolucion, a rather thin but widely scattered stratum of insurgent literati, wrote about recent events as a singular historical...
2. 1913-1920" "Warring Authorities Mean Warring Pasts."
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pp. 49-67
Many self-styled revolutionary movements appeared in Mexico following the destruction of the Madero government. These groups fought a common enemy in Victoriano Huerta, as well as vying with one another. The next few years witnessed a jumbled parade of "istas" -Maderistas...
3. 1920-1928: "Political Domination Involves Historical Definition."
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pp. 68-78
During the 1920s, successive Mexican governments turned to la Revolucion for legitimacy. La Revolucion, as they received it, was indispensable but incomplete. The voceros de la Revolucion, increasingly a part of the government bureaucracy, still worked on interpreting and defining the great...
Chronology of Events, 1928-1968
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pp. 79-83
Photo Section
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pp. 85-91
Part Two: PERFORMANCE
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pp. 93-97
In the summer of 1928 the Caudillo de la Revolucion was assassinated. Obregon, not unlike Porfirio Diaz decades before, was not simply the strongman. He knew also how to play politics: how to balance interests and rivalries, how to conciliate and intimidate those individuals...
4. Festival: A Vigorous Mexico Arising
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pp. 99-116
Revolution day, the twentieth of November, is one of Mexico's most important patriotic festivals. On this day every year Mexicans remember and celebrate la Revolucion. This day commemorates specifically November 20, 1910, the date selected by Francisco I. Madero for the popular uprising...
5. Monument: From the Ruins of the Old Regime
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pp. 117-136
For more than twenty years, the skeletal iron frame of the Palacio Legislativo Federal, the national capitol, designed to be one of the triumphs of Beaux-Arts architecture of the age of Porfirio Diaz, dominated the skyline of Mexico City.The most important building that the Porfirian regime...
6. History: The Work of Concord and Unifcation
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pp. 137-
During the 1960s veterans of la Revolucion gathered every August to offer their political support to the president during what came to be known as the Breakfast of Revolutionary Unity. Unity in the present was projected upon the past. The bitter factional rivalries of earlier years were downplayed...
Chronology of Events, 1968-Present
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pp. 153-156
Conclusion: Affirming and Subverting the Revolution
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pp. 157-165
During the late 1940s some of Mexico's most prominent intellectuals pronounced la Revolucion dead. No revolution, they argued, is immortal, and Mexico's more conservative turn under President Miguel Aleman Valdes (1946-52) certainly marked the end of an era in modern Mexican...
Notes
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pp. 167-204
Sources
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pp. 205-206
Bibliography
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pp. 207-232
Index
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pp. 233-237
E-ISBN-13: 9780292798205
E-ISBN-10: 0292798202
Print-ISBN-13: 9780292708808
Print-ISBN-10: 0292708807
Page Count: 256
Illustrations: 11 b&w photos, 2 tables
Publication Year: 2000
