Both a political biography of Carlos Pellegrini and a study of political economy, this book challenges traditional views of Argentine history. Covering the period from 1880 through 1916, Richmond reconstructs this period of elite rule. He demonstrates that Pellegrini solved recent problems nearly 100 years earlier and questions why the military, middle class reformers, and populists have failed where the elites often succeeded. The author's main hypothesis is that the Pellegrini regime was a turning point in Argentine history. The departure of the elites coincided with a decline in...
Both a political biography of Carlos Pellegrini and a study of political economy, this book challenges traditional views of Argentine history. Cove...
This anthology on the conflict between Mexico and the United States from 1846 to 1848 considers the military, social, political, and diplomatic aspects of what is often referred to in Mexico as the "invasion yanqui." Included are an account of President Polk's wartime tour of New England, a study of monarchist intrigues in Mexico during the war, a description of the disharmony between Polk and his generals that resulted in weakened policy formation, and, finally, a view of a soldier's life through the letters of Andrew Trussell, a volunteer.
This anthology on the conflict between Mexico and the United States from 1846 to 1848 considers the military, social, political, and diplomatic aspect...
In 1910 insurgent leaders crushed the Porfirian dictatorship, but in the years that followed fought among themselves, until a nationalist consensus produced the 1917 Constitution. This in turn provided the basis for a reform agenda that transformed Mexico in the modern era. The civil war and the reforms that followed receive new and insightful attention in this book.These essays, the result of the 45th annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, presented by the University of Texas at Arlington in March 2010, commemorate the centennial of the outbreak of the revolution.A potent mix of...
In 1910 insurgent leaders crushed the Porfirian dictatorship, but in the years that followed fought among themselves, until a nationalist consensus pr...
The Yucatan Peninsula has one of the longest, most multifaceted histories in the Americas. With the arrival of Europeans, native Maya with long and successful cultural and diplomatic traditions of their own had to grapple with outside forces attempting to impose new templates of life and politics on them. Conflict and Carnage in Yucatan provides a rigorously researched study of the vexed and bloody period of 1855 to 1876, during which successive national governments implemented, replaced, and restored liberal policies. Synthesizing an extensive and heterogeneous range of sources,...
The Yucatan Peninsula has one of the longest, most multifaceted histories in the Americas. With the arrival of Europeans, native Maya with long and su...
