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Mexico: Revolution 1910-20

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Basics

Maps of the Mexican Revolution.

Mexican Revolution (Wikipedia).

The Mexican Revolution: An Overview (Lynn Davies).

On the Web: Articles

On the Web: Specialized Sites

In the Library: Articles

Beezley, William H. "State reform during the provisional presidency: Chihuahua, 1911," Hispanic American Historical Review 50,3 (8/70):524-38.

__________. "In search of everyday Mexicans in the Revolution," Inter-American Review of Bibliography 333,3 (1983):366-82.

Beltrán, Enrique. "Fantasía y realidad de Pancho Villa," Historia Mexicana 61 (1966):71-84.

Benjamin, Thomas. "Una historia poco gloriosa: el enforme de Rafael Cal y Mayor al Gral. Emiliano Zapata, 1917," Historia Mexicana 32,4 (4-6/84):594-619.

Blaisdell, Lowell. "Henry Lane Wilson & the overthrow of Madero," Southwestern Social Science Quarterly 43,2 (9/62):126-35. Role of US ambassador in establishing Huerta dictatorship.

Boyd, Lola. "Zapata in the literature of the Mexican Revolution," Hispania (12/69):903-10.

Brandt, Nancy. "Pancho Villa: the making of a modern legend," The Americas 21 (1964):146-62.

Brown, Lyle C. " The politics of armed struggle in the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1915" & "Mexico's Constitution of 1917," in Wilkie & Michaels (eds.) Revolution in Mexico: Years of Upheaval, 1910-1940 (NY, 1969), pp. 61-72 & 112-15. Admirably concise, lucid summaries.

Brunk, Samuel. "Zapata & the city boys: in search of a piece of the Revolution," Hispanic American Historical Review 73,1 92/93):33-66.

__________. "'The sad situation of civilians & soldiers': the banditry of Zapatismo in the Mexican Revolution," American Historical Review 101,2 (1996):331-53.

__________. "Remembering Emiliano Zapata: three moments in the posthumous career of the martyr of Chinameca," Hispanic American Historical Review 78,3 (8/98):457-90.

Calvert, Peter. "The Mexican revolution: theory or fact?" Journal of Latin American Studies 1 (5/69):51-68.

Carr, Barry. "The Mexican Revolution revisited," Latin American Review of Books 1 (spr 1973):135-40.

Cheibub, José Antonio. "Mobilizing & sustaining collective action in the Mexican Revolution," Politics & Society 23 (1995):243-58.

Chevalier, François. "Un factor decisivo de la revolución agraria en México: el levantamiento de Zapata (1911-1919)," Cuadernos Americanos 113,6 (11-12/60):165-87.

Coll de Hurtado, Atlántida. "La guerrilla zapatista: principales lugares donde presentó batalla, 191101919," Anuario de Geografía 13 (1973):287-300.

Cumberland, Charles C. "Mexican revolutionary movements from Texas, 1906-1912," Southwest Historical Quarterly 52 (1949):301-24.

__________. "Border raids in the lower Rio Grande valley, 1915," Southwest Historical Quarterly 57 (1954):285-311.

__________. "Huerta y Carranza ante la ocupación de Veracruz," Historia Mexicana 24 (1957):534-47. US invasion in 1914.

Davis, Rey. "Praxedis Guerrero: early revolutionary," Monthly Review 37,7 (11/85):41-42.

Epejel, Laura. "El Cuartel General: órgano rector de la revolución zapatista, 1914 y 1915," en H. Crespo (ed.) Morelos: cinco siglos de historia regional (Cuernavaca, 1984), pp. 251-61.

Estrada, Richard. "Zapata to Villa, revolutionary camp in Morelos, 1/19/1914," in Proceedings of the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies 8 (1981-82):159-68.

Fuentes, Carlos. "Viva Zapata," NY Review of Books (3/13/59):5-11.

Gill, Mario. "Zapata: su pueblo y sus hijos," Historia Mexicana 2,2 (1952):294-312.

Gilly, Adolfo. "La Revolución Mexicana' in E. Semo (coord.) México: un pueblo en la historia, vol. II (Puebla, 1983), pp. 303-410.

González, Luis. "La Revolución Mexicana desde el punto de vista de los revolucionados," Historias 8-9 (1-6/85):5-13.

__________. "La Revolución Mexicana y los revolucionados," Nexos 104 (8/86):9-13.

González Navarro, Moisés. "La ideología de la Revolución Mexicana," Historia Mexicana 10,4 (4-6/61):628-36.

__________. "Xenofobia y xenofilia en la Revolución Mexicana," Historia Mexicana 722 (1969):569-614.

__________. "El maderismo y la revolución agraria," Historia Mexicana 37 (7-9/87):5-28.

González Ramírez, Manuel. "La muerte del general Zapata y la práctica de las emboscadas," Estudios de Historia Moderna y Contemporánea Mexicana 2 (1967):211-47.

Guerra, François Xavier. "Territorio minado (más allá de Zapata en la Revolución Mexicana)," Nexos 65 (5/83):31-47. Important roles played by northern miners in the struggle.

Hart, John M. "Miguel Negrete: la epopeya de un revolucionario," Historia Mexicana 93 (1974):70-94.

__________. "The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920," in Meyer & Beezley (eds.) The Oxford History of Mexico (Oxford, 2000), pp. 435-66.

Huizer, Gerrit. "Emiliano Zapata & the peasant guerrillas in the Mexican Revolution," in R. Stavenhagen (ed.) Agrarian Problems & Peasant Movements in Latin America (NY, 1970), pp. 375-406.

Jefferson, Mark. "The Revolution & the Mexican plateau," Bulletin of the American Geographical Society 46,6 (6/14):436-37.

Katz, Friedrich. "Alemania y Francisco Villa," Historia Mexicana 45 (1962):88-102.

__________. "Agrarian changes in northern Mexico in the period of Villista rule, 1913-1915," in J. Wilkie & others (eds.) Contemporary Mexico (Berkeley: U. of California, 1976), pp. 259-73.

__________. "Pancho Villa & the attack on Columbus, New Mexico," American Historical Review 83,1 (2/78):101-30.

__________. "Villa: reform governor of Chihuahua," in Wolfskill & Richmond (eds.) Essays on the Mexican Revolution (Austin: U. of Texas, 1979), pp. 25-46.

__________. "Pancho Villa, peasant movements & agrarian reform in northern Mexico," in D. Brading (ed.) Caudillo & Peasant in the Mexican Revolution (NY, 1980), pp. 59-75.

__________. "Volvámonos con Pancho Villa," Nexos 107 (11/86):37-48.

__________. "Pancho Villa y la Revolución Mexicana," Revista Mexicana de Sociología 51 (4-6/89):87-114.

__________. "The agrarian policies & ideas of the revolutionary Mexican factions led by Emiliano Zapata, Pancho Villa & Venustiano Carranza," in L. Randall (ed.) Reforming Mexico's Agrarian Reform (Armonk NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1996), pp. 21-34.

__________. "From alliance to dependency: the formation & deformation of an alliance between Francisco Villa & the US," in D. Nugent (ed.) Rural Revolt in Mexico & US Intervention (Durham: Duke, 1998), pp. 239-60.

Knight, Alan. "The working class & the Mexican Revolution, c. 1900-1920," Journal of Latin American Studies 16,1 (5/84):51-79.

__________. "The Mexican Revolution: Bourgeois? Nationalist? or Just a 'Great Rebellion'," Bulletin of Latin American Research 4,1 (1985):1-37.

__________. "Los intelectuales en la Revolución Mexicana," Revista Mexicana de Sociología 51 (4-6/89):25-66.

__________. "Social revolution: a Latin American perspective," Bulletin of Latin American Research 9,2 (1990):175-202.

__________. "Weapons & arches in the Mexican Revolution landscape," in G.M. Joseph & D. Nugent (eds.) Everyday Forms of State Formation (Durham NC: Duke, 1994), pp. 24-68.

Mallon, Florencia E. "The Mexican Revolution: background, development & consequences," Radical History Review 61 (win 95):139-47.

Mancisidor, José. "El huertismo," Historia Mexicana 3,1 (1953):34-51.

McNeely, John P. "Origins of the Zapata revolt in Morelos," Hispanic American Historical Review 46,2 (5/66):153-69.

Meyer, Jean. "El zapatismo va a la Cristiada," Nexos 231 (3/97):37-38. Agrarianist origins of Catholic revolt in the 20s.

Meyer, Lorenzo. "Su Magestad Británica contra la Revolución Mexicana," Nexos 108 (12/87).

Meyer, Michael C. "Habla por tí mismo, Juan: una propuesta por un método alternativo de investigación," Historia Mexicana 87 (1973):396-408.

Miller, Simon. "Land & labour in Mexican rural insurrections," Bulletin of Latin American Research 10,1 (1991):55-79.

Monjarás-Ruiz, Jesús. "México entre 1910 y 1920: otro tablero de ajedrez de las grandes potencias?" Historia Mexicana 33,2 (1983):337-48.

Moreno de Alba, José G. "Villa y Zapata: sus estereotipos en la literatura," Revista de la Universidad 570-71 (7-8/98):10-19.

Moreno Toscano, Alejandra. "La crisis de 1915: del porvenir de los recuerdos," Nexos 86 (2/85).

Osorio, Rubén. "Villismo: nationalism & popular mobilization in northern Mexico," in D. Nugent (eds.) Rural Revolt in Meixco (Durham NC: Duke, 1998), pp. 89-106.

Pettit, Arthur G. "Relaciones Zapata-Carranza," Anuario de Historia 5 (1965):69-82.

Richmond, Douglas W. "El nacionalismo de Carranza y los cambios socioeconómicos -- 1915-1920," Historia Mexicana 101 (1976):107-31.

__________. "Carranza: the authoritarian populist as nationalist president," in Wolfskill & Richmond (eds.) Essays on the Mexican Revolution (Austin: U. of Texas, 1979), pp. 47-80.

__________. "Nationalism & class conflict in Mexico, 1910-1920," The Americas 43,3 (1987):279-303.

Roman, Richard. "Political democracy & the Mexican Constitutionalists: a re-examination," The Americas 34,1 (7/77):81-89.

__________. "The 'interrupted revolution": an explication & critique of Adolfo Gilly's interpretation of the Mexican Revolution," Canadian Journal of Latin American Studies 9,18 (win 84):3-30.

Ross, Stanley R. "Forging a nation," Revista de Historia de America 83 (1-6/77):135-51.

__________. "La protesta de los intelectuales ante México y su Revolución," Historia Mexicana 26,3 (1977):396-437.

Rueda Smithers, Salvador. "La dinámica interna del zapatismo: consideración para el estudio de la cotidianeidad campesina en el área zapatista," in H. Crespo (ed.) Morelos: cinco siglos de historia regional (Cuernavaca, 1984), pp. 224-49.

__________ & Jane Dale Lloyd. "El discurso legal campesino y orden político revolucionario: el caso zapatista," Historias 8-9 (1-6/85):51-57.

Salamini, Heather Fowler. "The Mexican Revolution: a peasant revolution?" Peasant Studies 15,3 (spr 88):191-205. Review essay on Knight, Mexican Revolution.

Silva Herzog, Jesús. "La Constitución mexicana de 1917," Cuadernos Americanos 26,2 (1967):178-91.

Smith, Peter H. "La política dentro de la Revolución: el Congreso Constituyente de 1916-1917," Historia Mexicana 87 (1973):363-95.

__________. "The Mexican Revolution & the transformation of political elites," Boletín de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe 25 (12/78):3-20.

Strauss Neuman, Martha. "La mano extranjera en el gobierno y exilio de Victoriano Huerta, 1913-15," Estudios de Historia Moderna y Contemporanea Mexicana 7 (1979):135-46.

Tannenbaum, Frank. "Reflections on the Mexican Revolution," Journal of International Affairs 9,1 (1955):37-46. Emphasizes importance for Mexicans of achievement of national sovereignty, dignity & broadening of democratic control.

Taylor, Lawrence D. "The great adventure: mercenaries in the Mexican Revolution, 1910-15," The Americas 43,1 (7/86):25-46.

Turner, Frederick C. "Anti-Americanism in Mexico, 1910-1913," Hispanic American Historical Review 47 (1967):502-17.

Valero Silva, José. "La decena trágica," Estudios de Historia Moderna y Contemporanea Mexicana 3 (1970):89-118.

Vanderwood, Paul. "The picture postcard as historical evidence: Veracruz, 1914," The Americas 45 (10/88):201-26.

Vaughan, Mary Kay. "Cultural approaches to peasant politics in the Mexican Revolution," Hispanic American Historical Review 79,2 (5/99):269-308.

Vela González, Francisco. "Recuerdos de la Convención de Aguascalientes," Historia Mexicana 45 (1962):123-42.

__________. "La quincena trágica de 1913," Historia Mexicana 47 (1963):440-53.

Warman, Arturo. "The political project of zapatismo," in F. Katz (ed.) Riot, Rebellion & Revolution (Princeton: Princeton, 1998), pp. 321-37.

White, Robert A. SJ. "Mexico: the Zapata movement & the Revolution," in H. Landsberger (ed.) Latin American Peasant Movements (Ithaca: Cornell, 1969), pp. 101-69.

Womack, John. "The Mexican economy during the Revolution, 1910-1920: historiogaphy & analysis," Marxist Perspectives 1,4 (win 78):80-123.

__________. "The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920," in L. Bethell (ed.) Cambridge History of Latin Americas, vol. V (London, 1986). Reprint in Bethell (ed.) Mexico Since Independence, pp. 125-200.

__________. "El Plan de Ayala," Nexos 231 (3/97):39-41.

Yanes, Emma. "Los recuerdos del abuelo," Historias 8-9 (1-6/85):191-203.

In the Library: Non-Fiction Books

Adame Goddard, Jorge. Influjo de la doctrina social católica en el Artículo 123 constitucional (México, 1988).

Aguilar Camín, Hector. La frontera nómada: Sonora y la Revolución mexicana (México: Siglo XXI, 1977).

__________. Saldos de la Revolución (México, 1982).

Albro, Ward S. To Die on Your Feet: The Life, Times, & Writings of Praxedis G. Guerrero (Fort Worth, 1996).

Arenas Guzmán, Diego. Radiografía del cuartelazo, 1912-1913 (México, 1969). Decena trágica & military coup against Madero.

Baerlein, Henry. Mexico, the Land of Unrest (Philadelphia, 1914). Eyewitness report on decena trágica.

Benjamin, Thomas & Mark Wasserman (eds.) Provinces of the Revolution: Essays on Regional Mexican History, 1910-1929 (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1990).

__________. La Revolución: Mexico's Great Revolution as Memory, Myth & History (Austin: U. of Texas, 2000).

Blanco Moheno, Roberto. Crónica de la Revolución Mexicana (3 vols.; México, 1958-61).

Bliss, Katherine Elaine. Compromised Positions: Prostitution, Public Health & Gender Politics in Revolutionary Mexico City (University Park: Pennsylvania State U., 2003).

Bonfil Batalla, Guillermo (comp.) Mi pueblo durante la Revolución (3 vols.; México: INAÓ, 1985). Invaluable oral-historical memoirs of Revolution as widely diverse experience in dozens of particular localities.

Boyd, Lola Elizabeth. Emiliano Zapata en las letras y el folklore mexicano (Madrid, 1979).

Braddy, Haldeen. Cock of the Walk: The Legend of Pancho Villa (Port Washington NY, 1970).

Brading, David (ed.) Caudillo & Peasant in the Mexican Revolution (NY: Cambridge, 1980).

Branch, H.N. (trans.) The Mexican Constitution of 1917 Compared with the Constitution of 1857 (Suppl. to Annals of the American Academy of Political & Social Science; Philadelphia, 1917). Introduction is lucid summary of Revolution's causes, purposes & results by Carrancista intellectual Luis Cabrera.

Brenner, Anita. The Wind that Swept Mexico: History of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1942 [1943] (Austin: U. of Texas, 1971).

Brunk, Samuel. Emiliano Zapata: Revolution & Betrayal in Mexico (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1995).

Bush, I.J. The Gringo Doctor (Caldwell ID, 1939). Memoir of service with Villa's forces.

Calvert, Peter. Mexican Revolution, 1910-1914: The Diplomacy of Anglo-American Conflict (London, 1968).

__________. Emiliano Zapata (London, 1979).

Cantú y Cantú, Carlos H. Los halcones dorados de Villa (México: Diana, 1969).

Cazés, Daniel. Los revolucionarios (Méxioco, 1973). Interviews in their old age with Villistas Roque González Garza & Federico Cervantes, Zapatistas Octavio Magaña & Jacobo Berra, & Carrancistas Alfredo Breceda Mercado & Ignacio Suárez.

Clendenen, Clarence C. The US & Pancho Villa: A Study in Unconventional Diplomacy (Ithaca: Cornell, 1961).

Coerver, Don M. & Lineda B. Hall. Texas & the Mexican Revolution: A Study in State & National Border Policy, 1910-1920 (San Antonio: Trinity U., 1984).

Colmenares M., Ismael y otros (eds.) Cien años de lucha de clases en México (2 vols.; México: Quinto Sol, 1978-80).

Contreras, Mario y Jesús Tamayo (eds.) México en el siglo XX: Vol. I, 1900-1913 & vol. II, 1913-1920 (México, 1976). Useful collection of documents.

Córdova, Arnaldo. La ideología de la Revolución Mexicana (México

Cumberland, Charles C. The Mexican Revolution: Genesis under Madero (Austin: U. of Texas, 1952).

__________. The Mexican Revolution: The Constitutionalist Years (Austin: U. of Texas, 1972).

Dromundo, Baltasar. Vida de Emiliano Zapata (México, 1961).

Fuentes Mares, José. La Revolución mexicana: memorias de un espectador (México, 1971).

Gilly, Adolfo. La revolución interrumpida. México, 1910-1920: una guerra campesina por la tierra y el poder (México: Caballito, 1971).

__________ y otros. Interpretaciones de la Revolución Mexicana (México, 1979).

Gómez, Marte R. Pancho Villa. Un intento de semblanza (México, 1972).

Gonzalez, Michael J. The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940 (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 2002).

Grieb, Kenneth J. The US & Huerta (Lincoln: U. of Nebraska, 1969).

Guerra, François-Xavier. México: del antiguo régimen a la Revolución [1985] (2 vols.; México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1988).

__________. La sucesión presidencial de 1910: la querella de las elites (México, 1998).

Guzmán, Martín Luis. Memorias de Pancho Villa (The Memoires of Pancho Villa) (México: Cia. Gral. de Ediciones, 1951; English trans. Virginia H. Taylor; Austin: U. of Texas, 1965).

Hall, Linda B. Power & Revolution in Mexico: The Rise of Alvaro Obregón, 1911-1920 (College Station: Texas A & M, 1981).

Hanrahan, Gene Z. (ed.) Documents on the Mexican Revolution (9 vols.; Salisbury NC: Documentary Publications, 1976-82). Includes among others Blood Below the Border: American Eye-Witness Accounts of the Mexican Revolution, Villa: Bandit or Patriot? & Abajo el Gringo!: Anti-American Sentiment during the Mexican Revolution.

Hart, John Mason. Revolutionary Mexico: The Coming & Process of the Mexican Revolution (Berkeley: U. of California, 1987).

Henderson, Peter V.N. Felix Diaz, the Porfirians, & the Mexican Revolution (Lincoln: U. of Nebraska, 1981).

__________. In the Absence of Don Porfirio: Francisco León de la Barra & the Mexican Revolution (Wilmington DE: Scholarly Resources, 1999).

Jauffret, Eric. Revolution et sacrifice au Mexique: naissance d'une nation (1910-1917) (Paris, 1986).

Johnson, William Weber. Heroic Mexico (NY, 1968). Popular history.

Joseph, Gilbert M. & Timothy J. Henderson (eds.) The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Durham NC: Duke, 2002).

Katz, Friedrich. The Secret War in Mexico: Europe, the US & the Mexican Revolution (Chicago: U. of Chicago, 1981).

__________. The Life & Times of Pancho Villa (Stanford: Stanford, 1998).

King, Rosa E. Tempest over Mexico (Boston: Little, Brown, 1935). Memoir of a Cuernavaca hotel-keeper.

Knight, Alan. The Mexican Revolution: Vol. I, Porfirians, Liberals & Peasants; Vol. II, Counter-Revolution & Reconstruction (Cambridge, 1986).

Krauze, Enrique. Francisco I. Madero: místico de la libertad (México, 1987).

Langle Ramírez, Arturo. El ejército villista (México, 1961).

Lansford, William Douglas. Pancho Villa (LA: Sherbourne, 1965).

Lear, John. Workers, Neighbors & Citizens: The Revolution in Mexico City (Lincoln: U. of Nebraska, 2001).

León Portilla, Miguel. Los manifiestos en náhuatl de Emiliano Zapata (México, 1978).

Madero, Francisco I. Plan de San Luis: Manifiesto a la Nación (10-11/1910) (México, 1972). ;Call to arms of first phase of Revolution.

Magaña, Gildardo. Emiliano Zapata y el agrarismo en México (5 vols.; México, 1936-52).

Mancisidor, José. Historia de la Revolución Mexicana (México, 1958). Marxist synthesis.

Márquez Sterling, Manuel. Los últimos días del Presidente Madero (Mi gestión diplomática en México) (2nd ed.; México, 1958). Cuban ambassador's account of Huerta coup against Madero.

Martínez, Oscar J. (ed.) Fragments of the Mexican Revolution: Personal Accounts from the Border (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1983).

Martínez Assad, Carlos y otros. Revolucionarios fueron todos (México, 1982).

Mena, Mario. Zapata (México, 1998).

Meyer, Eugenia. Conciencia histórica norteamericana sobre la Revolución de 1910 (México: INAH, 1970).

__________. Luis Cabrera: teórico y crítico de la Revolución (México: SEP/80, 1982).

Meyer, Michael C. Mexican Rebel: Pascual Orozco & the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1915 (Lincoln: U. of Nebraska, 1967).

__________. Huerta: A Political Portrait (Lincoln: U. of Nebraska, 1972).

Millon, Robert P. Zapata: The Ideology of a Peasant Revolutionary (NY: International, 1969).

Niemeyer, E.V. Revolution at Querédtaro: The Mexican Constitutional Convention of 1916-1917 (Austin: U. of Texas, 1974).

O'Hea, Patrick. Reminiscences of the Mexican Revolution (London, 1981).

O'Shaughnessy, Edith. Intimate Pages of Mexican History (NY, 1920). Memoir of a foreign diplomat's wife.

Peterson, Jessie & Thelma Cox Knowles. Pancho Villa: Intimate Recollections by People Who Knew Him (NY, 1977).

Pinchon, Edgcumb. Viva Villa! A Recovery of the Real Pancho Villa: Peon, Bandit, Soldier, Patriot (NY, 1933).

Pineda Gómez, Francisco. La irrupción zapatista, 1911 (México, 1997).

Puente, Ramón. Villa en pie (México, 1966).

Py, Pierre. Francia y la Revolución Mexicana, 1910-1920 (México, 1991).

Quirk, Robert E.Tthe Mexican Revolution, 1914-1915: The Convention of Aguascalientes (Bloomington: Indiana U., 1960).

Raat, D. & W. Beezley (eds.) 20th C. Mexico (Lincoln: U. of Nebraska, 1986).

Reed, John. Insurgent Mexico [1914] (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1969). Brilliant war reportage from Villista camps in North.

Reyes H., Alfonso. Múgica, ideólogo del Congreso Constituyente (México, 1967).

Richmond, Douglas W. Venustiano Carranza's Nationalist Struggle, 1893-1920 (Lincoln: U. of Nebraska, 1983).

Rius (Eduardo del Rio). La Revolucioncita Mexicana (México: Posada, 1978). Critical history in comic form.

Rodríguez O., Jaime E. (ed.) The Revolutionary Process in Mexico: Essays in Political & Social Change, 1880-1940 (LA, 1990).

Roman, Richard. Ideología y clase en la Revolución Mexicana: la Convención y el Congreso Constituyente (México: SepSetentas, 1976).

Ross, Stanley. Francisco I. Madero: Apostle of Mexican Democracy (NY: Columbia, 1955).

__________ (ed.) Is the Mexican Revolution Dead? (NY: Knopf, 196?).

Rouaix, Pastor. Génesis de los artículos 27 y 123 de la Constitución Política de 1917 (Puebla, 1945). Good for radical influence of Francisco Múgica & Heriberto Jara on Querétaro debates.

Ruiz, Ramón Eduardo. The Great Rebellion: Mexico, 1905-1924 (NY, 1980).

Rutherford, John. Mexican Society during the Revolution: A Literary Approach (NY, 1971). How novels may be used to study the period.

Sauza, Isabel María. ¿Por qué con Villa? (México, 1975). Analysis of oral history data taken from veterans of División del Norte, to establish why they joined up.

Silva Herzog, Jesús. Breve historia de la Revolución Mexicana (2 vols.; México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1960). Insider's lucid account from perspective of an exemplary public functionary of the Cárdenas era. For years the most widely-read history in Mexico itself.

__________. Trayectoria ideológica de la Revolución Mexicana, del manifiesto del Partido Liberal de 1906 a la Constitución de 1917 (México, 1963).

Simmons, Merle Edwin. The Mexican Corrido as a Source for Interpretive Study of Modern Mexico, 1870-1950 (Bloomington: Indiana U., 1957).

Sotelo Inclán, Jesús. Raíz y razón de Zapata [1943] (México, 1991).

__________. Emiliano Zapata (México, 1970). Interviews with Eugenia Meyer & Alicia Olivera de Bonfil.

Stout, Joseph A. Border Conflict: Villistas, Carrancistas & the Punitive Expedition, 1915-1920 (Fort Worth, 1999).

Taylor, Lawrence. La gran aventura en México: el papel de los voluntarios extranjeros en los ejércitos revolucionarios mexicanos, 1910-1915 (México, 1993).

Thord-Gray, I. Gringo Rebel (Mexico 1913-14) (Coral Gables, 1960). Mercenary memoir.

Tompkins, Frank. Chasing Villa: Pershing's Expedition into Mexico (Harrisburg PA, 1934).

Torres, Elías L. Twenty Episodes in the Life of Pancho Villa (Austin: U. of Texas, 1973)

Tuchman, Barbara. The Zimmerman Telegram (NYU, 1958).

Tuck, Jim. Pancho Villa & John Reed: Two Faces of Romantic Revolution (Tucson: U. of Arizona, 1984).

Turner, Timothy G. Bullets, Bottles & Gardenias (Dallas, 1935). American newspaperman's memoir.

Valadés, José C. Imaginación y realidad de Don Francisco I. Madero (2 vols.; México: Robredo, 1960).

Valero Silva, José y otros. Polvos del olvido: cultura y revolución (México, 1993).

Various authors. Emiliano Zapata y el movimiento zapatista (México: INAH, 1980.

Vargas Arreola, Juan Bautista. A sangre y fuego con Pancho Villa (México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1988).

Vasconcelos, José. Ulíses criollo. La tormenta. El desastre. El proconsulado (México, 1936-38 & many subsequent editions). Classic autobiographical account of the era running into 1920s.

Wilkie, James W. & Albert L. Michaels (eds.) Revolution in Mexico: Years of Upheaval, 1910-1940 (NY, 1969).

Wolfskill, George & Douglas W. Richmond (eds.) Essays on the Mexican Revolution: Revisionist Views of the Leaders (Austin: U. of Texas, 1979).

Womack, John. Zapata & the Mexican Revolution (NY, 1968).

Wood, Andrew G. The Firecracker Wars: Urbanism, Protest & the State in Revolutionary Mexico, 1870-1927 (Wilmington DE: Scholarly Resources, 2001).

Yáñez, Agustín y Catalina Sierra (eds.) Archivo de Don Francisco I. Madero. Epistolario (1900-1909) (México, 1963).

In the Library: Fiction

Esquivel, Laura. Como agua para chocolate [Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances & Home Remedies] (México, 1989; English trans. NY: Doubleday 1992).

Fuentes, Carlos. El gringo viejo [The Old Gringo] (México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1985; English trans. NY: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1985).

Guzmán, Martín Luis. El águila y la serpiente (The Eagle & the Serpent) [1930] (México: Cia. General de Ediciones, 1954; English trans. Harriet de Onís; Gloucester MA: Peter Smith, 1969).

Montana, Alfredo. Andanzas del indio Vicente Alonso (México, 1995). Revolution in Colima.

Ocampo, María Luisa. La maestrita: novela corta inspirada en la vida de la Srta. Dolores Jiménez y Muro, coautora del Plan de Ayala (México, 1968).

In the Library: For Young Readers

In the Library: Poetry

In the Library: Drama

Steinbeck, John. Zapata (ed. R.E. Morsberger: Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993). Film script for "Viva Zapata", with a narrative on Zapata's life that remained unpublished until 1991.

In the Library: Photography

Samponaro, Frank N. & Paul J. Vanderwood. War Scare on the Rio Grande: Robert Runyon's Photographs of the Border Conflict, 1913-1916 (Austin: U. of Texas, 1992).

Vanderwood, Paul J. & Frank N. Samponaro. Border Fury: A Picture Postcard Record of Mexico's Revolution & US War Preparedness, 1910-1917 (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1988).

CD & Audio

Film & Video

"El compadre Mendoza" [1933], dir. Fernando de Fuentes, 85m. Classic focused on war & politics in Zapatista territory.

"Old Gringo" [1989], dir. Luis Puenzo, 120m. In video stores. American journalist Ambrose Bierce goes to die with forces of Pancho Villa, from Carlos Fuentes novel.

"Pancho Villa's Columbus Raid" [1983], dir. W. Clark & J. Parsons, 26m. From Cinema Guild.

"The Ragged Revolution" [1981], dir. Tony Essex, 37m. From Cinema Guild. Realities behind the romantic myths.

"Reed: México Insurgente" [1971], dir. Paul LeDuc, 110m. Realistic dramatization of John Reed's dispatches from the Villista camps.

"Vámonos con Pancho Villa" [1935], dir. Fernando de Fuentes, 92m. Classic focused on war & politics in Villista territory.

"Viva Zapata" [1952], dir. Elia Kazan, 113m. In video stores. Dramatic retelling of Zapata's story, deeply influenced by anti-Communist McCarthyism of US in that day.



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