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Caudillo and peasant in the Mexican revolution

Until quite recently, the Mexican Revolution was usually defined as an agrarian movement, as a peasant war, with Emiliano Zapata, leader of the villagers of Morelos, taken as its most typical figure. Yet this interpretation leaves many questions unanswered.
Print Book, English, [1980]
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, [1980]
History
XII, 314 p. 23 cm
9780521229975, 0521229979
434437921
1. Introduction: national politics and the populist tradition D. A. Brading; 2. Peasant and caudillo in revolutionary Mexico 1910–17 Alan Knight; 3. Pancho Villa, peasant movements and agrarian reform in northern Mexico Friedrich Katz; 4. Rancheros of Guerrero: The Figueroa brothers and the revolution Ian Jacobs; 5. The relevant tradition: Sonoran leaders in the revolution Hector Aguilar Camin; 6. Alvaro Obregón and the agrarian movement 1912–20 Linda B. Hall; 7. Saturnine Cedillo: a traditional caudillo in San Luis Potosi 1890–1938 Dudley Ankerson; 8. Revolutionary caudillos in the 1920s: Francisco Múgica and Adalberto Tejeda Heather Fowler Salamini; 9. Caciquismo and the revolution: Carrillo Puerto in Yucatan Gilbert M. Joseph; 10. State governors and peasant mobilisation in Tlaxcala Raymond Buve; 11. Conclusion: peasant mobilisation and the revolution Hans Werner Yowler.