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• Features a succinct biography of the life and times of a fascinating figure in Mexico's revolutionary past
• Represents the most analytical and up-to-date study of caudillo/military strongman rule
• Sheds new light on the networks and discourse practices that support rulers such as the Castros in Cuba and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, and the emergence of modern Mexico
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The complex nature of Mexican diplomacy calls for a new analysis of the process of foreign policy formulation. This book analyzes Mexico's initiatives in Central America during the Porfirian and Revolutionary periods and pays particular attention to Mexico's persistent challenge to U.S. influence in Central America. As both instrument and object of political discourse, foreign policy helps a country's governing elite negotiate its share of power. On the basis of archival research in Europe, the United States, and Latin America, Buchenau's work contributes to the "new international history"...

This rich anthology provides a glimpse of modern Mexico through the eyes of foreign observers. Some of these selections are by well-known authors (Alexander von Humboldt, John Reed, B. Traven, Evelyn Waugh). Some are unpublished pieces by little-known writers, and six are available here for the first time in English.

The writings fall into four periods: the transitions to independence and Mexico's first decades as a sovereign country (1800-1867), the era of Liberal modernization (1867-1910), the Mexican Revolution (1910-1940), and the post-World War II era. Four major topics show up...