Now in paperback, this is the first book to analyze the link between Mexico's foreign and domestic relations in the 1930s. By studying the regime of President Lazaro Cardenas (1934-1940), Professor Schuler substantially revises our understanding of how Cardenas asserted Mexico's economic and political sovereignty and also consolidated one-party rule and state-directed capitalism. Amid a deteriorating international climate and worldwide depression, a cadre of technocrats and ministers under Cardenas consistently advanced domestic goals in their foreign policy initiatives, particularly the...
Now in paperback, this is the first book to analyze the link between Mexico's foreign and domestic relations in the 1930s. By studying the regime of P...
Admiral Paul von Hintze arrived in Mexico in the spring of 1911 to serve as Germany s ambassador to a country in a state of revolution. Germany s emperor Wilhelm II had selected Hintze as his personal eyes and ears in Mexico (and concomitantly the neighboring United States) during the portentous years leading up to the First World War. The ambassador benefited from a network of informers throughout Mexico and was closely involved in the country s political and diplomatic machinations as the violent revolution played out.
Murder and Counterrevolution in Mexico presents Hintze...
Admiral Paul von Hintze arrived in Mexico in the spring of 1911 to serve as Germany s ambassador to a country in a state of revolution. Germany s e...
