Martin Luther College

"The seven years with which this book concerns itself . . . must be thoroughly examined if one is to have a grasp of modern Mexican history." -Military History of Texas and the Southwest The years 1913-1920 were the most critical years of the Mexican Revolution. This study of the period, a sequel to the author's Mexican Revolution: Genesis under Madero, traces Mexico's course through the anguish of civil war to the establishment of a tenuous...

The history of a dictatorship's demise-and the many power struggles that followed on the rocky road to democracy in early twentieth-century Mexico. The Mexican Revolution is one of the most important and ambitious sociopolitical experiments in modern times. This history by Charles C. Cumberland addresses the early years of this period, as the long dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz was finally overthrown and he was driven into exile due to the efforts...