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Mexico: Biography of Power Paperback - 1998
by Krauze, Enrique
- Used
- Paperback
A "magisterial history" ("The Wall Street Journal"), this sweeping volume tells Mexico's story through the fascinating and sometimes volatile personalities that have shaped it. 47 illustrations. 4 maps.
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Details
- Title Mexico: Biography of Power
- Author Krauze, Enrique
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Revised
- Condition Used:Good
- Pages 896
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, NY
- Date 1998-06-03
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # DADAX0060929170
- ISBN 9780060929176 / 0060929170
- Weight 2.09 lbs (0.95 kg)
- Dimensions 9.16 x 6.4 x 1.56 in (23.27 x 16.26 x 3.96 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Cultural Region: Mexican
- Library of Congress subjects History, Mexico
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96033046
- Dewey Decimal Code 972
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From the rear cover
The concentration of power in the caudillo (leader) is as much a formative element of Mexican culture and politics as the historical legacy of the Aztec emperors, Cortez, the Spanish Crown, the Mother Church and the mixing of the Spanish and Indian population into a mestizo culture. Krauze shows how history becomes biography during the century of caudillos from the insurgent priests in 1810 to Porfirio and the Revolution in 1910. The Revolutionary era, ending in 1940, was dominated by the lives of seven presidents -- Madero, Zapata, Villa, Carranza, Obregon, Calles and Cardenas. Since 1940, the dominant power of the presidency has continued through years of boom and bust and crisis. A major question for the modern state, with today's president Zedillo, is whether that power can be decentralized, to end the cycles of history as biographies of power.
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Citations
- New York Times, 08/30/1998, Page 24