Apostle of progress : Modesto C. Rolland, global progressivism, and the engineering of revolutionary Mexico / J. Justin Castro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Castro, J. Justin, 1981- author.

Series:

Mexican experience

The Mexican Experience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rolland, M. C. (Modesto C.).

Rolland, M. C.

Civil engineers--Mexico--Biography.

Civil engineers.

Mexico--History--20th century.

Mexico.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 310 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]

Summary:

From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, Mexico experienced major transformations influenced by a global progressive movement that thrived during the Mexican Revolution and influenced Mexico's development during subsequent governments. Engineers and other revolutionary technocrats were the system builders who drew up the blueprints, printed newspapers, implemented reforms, and constructed complexity-people who built modern Mexico with an eye on remedying long-standing problems through social, material, and infrastructural development during a period of revolutionary change.0 In Apostle of Progress J. Justin Castro examines the life of Modesto C. Rolland, a revolutionary propagandist and a prominent figure in the development of Mexico, to gain a better understanding of the role engineers played in creating revolution-era policies and the reconstruction of the Mexican nation. Rolland influenced Mexican land reform, petroleum development, stadium construction, port advancements, radio broadcasting, and experiments in political economy. In the telling of Rolland's story, Castro offers a captivating account of the Mexican Revolution and the influence of global progressivism on the development of twentieth-century Mexico.

Contents:

Child of the Porfiriato, child of the periphery

The reluctant revolutionary

A Mexican progressive

Back to the periphery

War and peace

Transitions

Opportunity, defeat, and the death of Virginia Garza de Rolland

A stadium for Stridentopolis

Mr. Bothersome

The undersecretary

Going big

Out of the ports and into the hills.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781496211736

1496211731

9781496211743

149621174X

OCLC:

1028582620