Mexico: Revolutionary Consolidation (1920-34)
(see also Mexico: Revolution, México: Cárdenas Regime 1934-40, Mexico: PRI Regime 1940-1968, Mexico: Food & Agriculture, Mexico: Labor Movement, Mexico: Military)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Andrews, Gregory. "Robert Haberman, socialist ideology & the politics of national reconstruction in Mexico, 1920-1925," Mexican Studies 6 (sum 90):189-211.
Beelen, George D. "Harding & Obregón: diplomacy by economic persuasion," The Americas (10/84).
Benjamin, Thomas. "Rebuilding the nation," in Meyer & Beezley (eds.) Oxford History of Mexico (NY: Oxford, 2000), pp. 467-502.
__________. "From the ruins of the Ancien Régime: Mexico's Monument to the Revolution," in Beezley & Curcio-Nagy (eds.) Latin American Popular Culture: An Introduction (Wilmington DE: Scholarly Resources, 2000).
González Navarro, Moisés. "La ideología de la Revolución," Historia Mexicana 40 (4-6/61):628-36. Lucid survey of strains in revolutionary ideology, & their origins.
__________. "Efectos sociales de la crisis de 1929," Historia Mexicana 76 (1970):536-58.
Hamilton, Nora. "The state & the national bourgeoisie in post-revolutionary Mexico, 1920-1940," Latin American Perspectives 35 (fall 82):31-54.
Knight, Alan. "Popular culture & the revolutionary state in Mexico, 1910-1940," Hispanic American Historical Review 74,3 (8/94):393-444.
Leal, Juan Felipe. "The Mexican State, 1915-1973: a historical interpretation," in N. Hamilton & T. Harding (eds.) Modern Mexico: State, Economy & Social Conflict (Beverly Hills CA: Sage, 1986).
Lomnitz, Claudio. "Compliance & coalitions in the Mexican government, 1917-1940," in Spores & Hassig (eds.) Five Centuries of Law & Politics in Central Mexico (Nashville, 1984), pp. 173-208.
López, Rick A. "The India Bonita contest of 1921 & the ethnicization of Mexican national culture," Hispanic American Historical Review 82,2 (5/02):291-328.
Meyer, Jean. "México, 1920-1934," in L. Bethell (ed.) Mexico Since Independence (NY: Cambridge, 199?),
Meyer, Lorenzo. "El primer tramo del camino," in Colegio de México, Historia General de México, vol IV (México, 1976), pp. 111-200. On the period 1920-1940.
Palacios, Guillermo. "Calles y la idea oficial de la Revolución Mexicana," Historia Mexicana 87 (1973):261-78.
Pozas Horcasitas, Ricardo. "Del desorden a la crisis (1920-1929), México," Revista Mexicana de Sociología 49 (7-9/87):105-22.
Shulgowski, Anatoly. "El caudillismo después de la Revolución, 1917-1930," Historia y Sociedad 3 (1967):3-20.
Tardanico, Richard. "Revolutionary nationalism & state-building in Meixco, 1917-1924," Politics & Society 10,1 (1980):59-84.
__________. "State responses to the Great Depression, 1929-1934: 'revolutionary' Mexico & "non-revolutionary' Colombia," in Tardanico (ed.) Crises in the Caribbean Basin (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1986), pp. 113-40.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Beals, Carleton. Mexican Maze (Philadelphia, 1931).
Benjamin, Thomas & Mark Wasserman (eds.) Provinces of the Revolution (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1990).
Beteta, Ramón. The Economic & Social Program of México (México, 1933).
Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente. Mexico in Revolution (El militarismo mejicano) (NY, 1920). Spanish journalist's dispatches written during last days of Carranza & first of Obregón.
Brenner, Anita. The Wind that Swept Mexico: History of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1942 [1943] (Austin: U. of Texas, 1971).
Calderón, Miguel Angel. El impacto de la crisis de 1929 en México (México, 1982).
Camp, Roderic Ai. The Making of a Government: Political Leaders in Modern Mexico (Tucson: U. of Arizona, 1984).
__________. Memoirs of a Mexican Politician (Albuquerque, 1988).
Campbell, Federico y otros. La sombra de Serrano: de la matanza de Huitzilac a la expulsión de Calles (México, 1981). Murder of Francisco Serrano on road to Cuernavaca in 1927 as beginning of a pattern in the abuse of state power.
Castro, Pedro. Adolfo de la Huerta: La integridad como arma de la Revolución (México, 1998).
Córdoba, Arnaldo. La formación del poder político en México (México, 1972).
__________. La ideología de la Revolución Mexicana: la formación del nuevo régimen (México: ERA, 1973).
Dawson, Alexander S. Indian & Nation in Revolutionary Mexico (Tucson: U. of Arizona, 2004).
Dillon, Emile Joseph. Mexico on the Verge (NY, 1921).
Dulles, J.W.F. Yesterday in Mexico: A Chronicle of the Revolution, 1919-1936 (Austin: U. of Texas, 1961).
Gonzáles, Michael J. The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940 (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 2002).
Herrera, Hayden. Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo (NY: Harper & Row, 1983).
Herring, Hubert & Herbert Weinstock (eds.) Renascent Mexico (NY, 1935).
Joseph, Gilbert M. & Timothy J. Henderson (eds.) The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Durham NC: Duke, 2002).
King, Rosa E. Tempest Over Mexico: A Personal Chronicle (Boston: Little, Brown, 1935). Memoir of a Cuernavaca hotel-keeper.
Krauze, Enrique; Jean Meyer & Cayetano Reyes. Historia de la Revolución Mexicana, 10: 1924-1928. La reconstrucción económica (México: Colegio de México, 1977).
Martínez Assad, Carlos (ed.) La sucesión presidencial en México (México: Nueva Imagen, 1981).
__________ y otros. Revolucionarios fueron todos (México, 1982).
Matute, Alvaro. Historia de la Revolución Mexicana, 8: 1917-1924. La carrera del caudillo (México: Colegio de México, 1980).
Medina Peña, Luis. Hacia el nuevo estado: México, 1920-1993 (México, 1994).
Moreno, Julio. Yankee Don't Go Home: Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, & the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920-1950 (Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina, 2003).
Ortiz, Orlando. La violencia en México (México: Diógenes, 1973).
Portes Gil, Emilio. Autobiografía de la Revolución Mexicana (México, 1964).
Raat, W. Dirk & W. Beezley (eds.) 20th-Century Mexico (Lincoln: U. of Nebraska, 1986).
Rodríguez O., Jaime (ed.) The Revolutionary Process in Mexico (Los Angeles, 1990).
__________ (ed.) The Evolution of the Mexican Political System (Wilmington DE: Scholarly Resources, 1993).
Saldivar, Américo; María Luisa Hernández Esteves y María Trinidad Torres Vera. Historia de México en el contexto mundial (México, 1986).
Sherman, John W. The Mexican Right: The End of Revolutionary Reform, 1929-1940 (Westport CT, 1997).
Silva Herzog, Jesús. Nueve estudios mexicanos (México, 195?).
Smith, Peter H. Labyrinths of Power: Political Recruitment in 20th-C. Mexico (Princeton NJ: Princeton, 1979).
Spenser, Daniela. El triángulo imposible: México, Rusia Soviética y Estados Unidos en los años veinte (México, 1998).
Tanenbaum, Frank. Peace By Revolution: An Interpretation of Mexico (NY: Columbia, 1933). Well-informed, sympathetic observer of developments in land, labor & educational reform under Calles & Obregón in areas of land, labor & educational reform.
Turner, Frederick C. The Dynamic of Mexican Nationalism (Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina, 1970).
Wilkie, J. & Michaels (eds.) Revolution in Mexico: Years of Upheaval, 1910-1940 [1969] (Tucson: U. of Arizona, 1984). Excellent collection of readings.
In the Library: Fiction
Benítez, Fernando. El rey viejo (México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1959). Fall of Carranza.
Fuentes, Carlos. The Death of Artemio Cruz (La muerte de Artemio Cruz) (
Guzmán, Martín Luis. La sombra del caudillo (México: Porrua, 1982). Mexico City in 20s under Pres. Alvaro Obregón.
Mastretta, Angeles. Arráncame la vida [Mexican Bolero] (México: Océano, 1986; English trans. London: Viking, 1989).
In the Library: For Young Readers
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"Frida" [2002], dir. Julie Taymor, 123m. In video stores.
"L.E.A.R.: The League of Revolutionary Writers & Artists" [1988], dir. Yvettes Nieves-Cruz, 31m. From Cinema Guild. Organization founded by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros & others in 1934, commited to fusion of art & politics.
"Tina in Mexico" [2005], dir. Brenda Longfellow, 60m. From Bullfrog Films. Tina Modotti, Edward Weston, Diego Rivera & others in Mexico City of 20s.