Mexico: Biography of Power: A History of Modern Mexico, 1810–1996Harper Collins, 2013 M04 9 - 898 páginas The concentration of power in the caudillo (leader) is as much a formative element of Mexican culture and politics as the historical legacy of the Aztec emperors, Cortez, the Spanish Crown, the Mother Church and the mixing of the Spanish and Indian population into a mestizo culture. Krauze shows how history becomes biography during the century of caudillos from the insurgent priests in 1810 to Porfirio and the Revolution in 1910. The Revolutionary era, ending in 1940, was dominated by the lives of seven presidents -- Madero, Zapata, Villa, Carranza, Obregon, Calles and Cardenas. Since 1940, the dominant power of the presidency has continued through years of boom and bust and crisis. A major question for the modern state, with today's president Zedillo, is whether that power can be decentralized, to end the cycles of history as biographies of power. |
Contenido
1824 | |
1830 | |
1844 | |
The Mestizo Family | |
The Spanish Crown | |
The Mother Church | |
Nationalism and the Constitution | |
Death and the General | |
Reform from the Roots | |
The Missionary General | |
The Modern State | |
The Gentleman President 18 Miguel Alemán The Businessman President and the System | |
The Administrator | |
The Orator | |
The Insurgent Priests | |
The Collapse of the Creoles | |
The Indian Shepherd and the Austrian Archduke | |
The Triumph of the Mestizo | |
The Revolution | |
The Apostle of Democracy | |
The Born Anarchist | |
Between Angel and Iron | |
The Advocate of Order | |
The Decline of the System | |
The Preacher | |
The Gambler | |
Lost Opportunities | |
The Man Who Would Be King | |
The Theater of History SOURCE NOTES INDEX COPYRIGHT ABOUT THE PUBLISHER | |