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State governors in the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1952 : portraits in conflict, courage, and corruption / edited by Jürgen Buchenau and William H. Beezley.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Latin American silhouettes.
- Latin American silhouettes
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Governors--Mexico--Biography.
- Governors.
- Mexican states--History--20th century.
- Mexican states.
- Mexican states--Politics and government--20th century.
- Mexico--History--1910-1946--Biography.
- Mexico.
- Mexico--History--Revolution, 1910-1920--Influence.
- Mexico--History, Local--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (220 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This unique volume examines revolutionary Mexico's state governors-the most significant intermediaries between the national government and the people it ruled. Leading scholars study governors from ten different states of Mexico during the eventful first half of the twentieth century to demonstrate the diversity of the governors' experiences over time, as well as the waxing and waning of strong governorship as an institution that disappeared in the powerful national regime created in the 1940's and 1950's. The only book that considers the state governors in comparative perspective, this invaluable
- Contents:
- The role of state governors in the Mexican Revolution / William H. Beezley
- Benito Juárez Maza of Oaxaca : a revolutionary governor? / Francie R. Chassen-López
- Salvador Alvarado of Yucatán : revolutionary reforms, revolutionary women / Stephanie J. Smith
- Plutarco Elías Calles of Sonora : a Mexican Jacobin / Jürgen Buchenau
- Adalberto Tejada of Veracruz : radicalism and reaction / Andrew Grant Wood
- José Guadalupe Zuno Hernández and the revolutionary process in Jalisco / María Teresa Fernández Aceves
- Tomás Garrido Canabal of Tabasco : road building and revolutionary reform / Kristin A. Harper
- Marte R. Gómez of Tamaulipas : governing agrarian revolution / Michael A. Ervin
- Efraín Gutiérrez of Chiapas : the revolutionary bureaucrat / Stephen E. Lewis
- Maximino Avila Camacho of Puebla / Timothy Henderson, David LaFrance
- Baltasar Leyva Mancilla of Guerrero : learning hegemony / Paul Gillingham.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-49620-4
- 9786612496202
- 0-7425-5771-5
- OCLC:
- 317500567
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