| To Die on Your Feet: The Life, Times and Writing of Práxedis Guerrero Contributor(s): Albro, Ward S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0875651631 ISBN-13: 9780875651637 Publisher: Texas Christian University Press OUR PRICE: $22.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1996 Annotation: Amidst the pantheon of Mexican heroes, writer-revolutionary Praxedis Guerrero (1882-1910) is a man often overlooked. His importance to a full understanding of Mexico's turbulent pre-revolutionary years, however, is undeniable. To Die on Your Feet examines Guerrero's involvement in a broad anarchist movement - led in part by Ricardo Flores Magon - that helped to provoke the Mexican Revolution against the government of Porfirio Diaz. Self-schooled in the bucolic teachings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and William Godwin, as well as the more activist theories of Mikhail Bakunin and Pyotr Kropotkin, Guerrero combined thinking and doing. Though raised as the son of a wealthy hacendado, he was a champion of the downtrodden. Guerrero despised greed, ignorance and despotism and used his pen as his primary weapon against such oppressions, writing incendiary essays for three liberal newspapers, Revolucion, Regeneracion and Punto Rojo in which he promoted socialist and anarchist ideals. People on both sides of the Mexico-United States border took note. Though he considered himself a writer, he was not adverse to direct action. He joined the ranks of the revoltoso martyrs when he was killed in guerrilla action against federal forces at Janos, Chihuahua, in 1910. He died on his feet. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - Mexico |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 96020198 |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6.3" W x 9.23" (1.23 lbs) 198 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - Mexican |
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| Publisher Description: Amidst the pantheon of Mexican heroes, poet-revolutionary Pr xedis G. Guerrero (1882-1910) is a name that is often overlooked. His importance, however, to a full understanding of a rich and dramatic pre-revolutionary period of Mexican history is undeniable. Ward S. Albro's To Die on Your Feet studies Guerrero's involvement in a movement led by Ricardo Flores Mag n, a movement that brought about the Mexican Revolution against the government of Porfirio D az in 1910. Unlike other Mexican revolutionaries who are most notable as men of action, Guerrero combined thinking and doing. He was a courageous and active leader of the magonistas who attempted to rally by any means his meager forces to strike a telling blow against the dictatorship; a champion of the downtrodden, he was also a journalist for three liberal newspapers, Revoluci n, Regeneraci n, and Puntos Rojos, in which he developed anarchist ideals that moved people on both sides of the Mexico-United States border. Guerrero, the young fighter for liberty, joined the ranks of martyrdom when he was killed in 1910 in Janos, Chihuahua, during the early days of the Mexican Revolution. He died on his feet. |