| The Mexican Revolution Contributor(s): Gilly, Adolfo (Author), Camiller, Patrick (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1565849329 ISBN-13: 9781565849327 Publisher: New Press OUR PRICE: $25.16 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2005 Annotation: What you didn't know about the Mexican Revolution: - When 150,000 U.S. troops massed for the Mexican invasion in 1916 it was the largest American deployment since the Civil War - Pancho Villa was a railway contractor before the revolution; he destroyed his own work during the revolution to slow the movement of government troops - Mexico's 1917 constitution established an eight-hour workday, a minimum wage, the rights to establish unions and to collectively bargain, and a right to strike--rights not seen in the U.S. until the 1930s and later |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - Mexico - History | Revolutionary |
| Dewey: 972.081 |
| LCCN: 2005049109 |
| Series: New Press People's History |
| Physical Information: 1.41" H x 5.82" W x 8.42" (1.37 lbs) 398 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Chronological Period - 1920's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: First published in Spanish in 1971, The Mexican Revolution has been praised by Mexico's Nobel Prize-winning author Octavio Paz as a notable contribution to history and is widely recognized as a seminal account of the Mexican Revolution. Written during the author's time as a political prisoner in the famous penitentiary of Lecumberri in Mexico, it sold thousands of copies in its first edition, becoming widely accepted as the official textbook by history faculties in Mexico despite Gilly's continued incarceration. It has gone through more than thirty editions in Mexico and been translated into French and Greek. This comprehensively revised and updated edition of the original text is now available with a foreword by Latin American history scholar Friedrich Katz and a new preface by the author. A true people's history, The Mexican Revolution is a stirring, bottom-up account of an event whose reverberations are still felt throughout Latin America and the rest of the world. |