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Title:

PORFIRIO DIAZ

By:

Paul Garner

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0582292670

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9780582292673

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

24 July, 2001

Series:

Profiles in Power

Pages:

280

Description:

Porfirio Diaz, President of Mexico (1876-1880 and 1884-1911) dominated his country during a crucial phase of its development into a modern nation. A comprehensive biography of Diaz, this text is an account of political survival and demise.

Synopsis:

The fall of Porfirio Diaz has traditionally been presented as a watershed between old and new: an old style repressive and conservative government, and the more democratic and representative system that flowered in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. Now this view is being challenged by a new generation of historians, who point out that Diaz originally rose to power in alliance with anti-conservative forces and was a modernising force as well as a dictator. Drawing together the threads of this revisionist reading of the Porfiriato, Garner reassesses a political career that spanned more than forty years, and examines the claims that post-revolutionary Mexico was not the break with the past that the revolutionary inheritors claimed.

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Imprint:

Longman

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