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Porfirio Diaz (Profiles in Power Series)
Porfirio Diaz - Profiles in Power Series
Author: Paul Garner
  • The recent political transition in Mexico has sparked new interest in this earlier period.
  • Provides an important synthesis of the current thinking on Porfirio Diaz in power
  • Looks at the strengths and weaknesses of the regime from two very different perspectives: that of the nineteenth century, and of the ...  more »
  • New addition to popular Profiles in Power series.
This is a new biography of the controversial Mexican dictator who was toppled by the 1910 Revolution.The fall of Porfirio Diaz has traditionally been presented as a watershed between old and new: an old style repressive and conservative government, and the more democratic and representative system that flowered in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. Now this view is being challenged by a new generation of historians, who point out that Diaz originally rose to power in alliance with anti-conservative forces and was a modernizing force as well as a dictator. Drawing together the threads of this revisionist reading of the Porfiriato, Garner reassesses a political career that spanned more than forty years, and examines the claims that post-revolutionary Mexico was not the break with the past that the revolutionary inheritors claimed. Paul Garner looks at the strengths and weaknesses of the Diaz regime from two very different perspectives: that of the nineteenth century, and of the twentieth century. Paul Garner is at the University of Wales - Swansea.
ISBN-13: 9780582292673
ISBN-10: 0582292670
Publication Date: 7/24/2001
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Longman
Book Type: Paperback
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