Public Expenditures & Social Change in Mexico: A Methodological Critique

During the three years since its publication, The Mexican Revolution Federal Expenditure and Social Change Since 1910 has gained an important place on the bookshelves not only of Mexicanists but also of students of social change in general. The appearance of a revised edition in paperback which proudly announces that it won the Bolton Prize as the best book in the field of Latin American history in 1967 is further testimony to the esteem in which this work is held by James Wilkie's colleagues. It seems appropriate at this juncture to re-examine the analysis to determine whether the test of time confirms the eulogies of a few years ago.

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Emiliano Zapata and the Old Regime: Myth, Memory, and Method

Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos ◽

10.1525/msem.2009.25.2.327 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 327-365

Author(s):

William Schell

Keyword(s):

Latin American ◽

American History ◽

Mexican Revolution ◽

John Steinbeck ◽

Old Regime ◽

Latin American History ◽

Elia Kazan

Four decades after its publication, John Womack's masterpiece Zapata and the Mexican Revolution remains the definitive account of the man and his movement and the basis of the generally agreed upon facts. It is also perhaps the most cited work of Anglophone Latin American history. This is not hyperbole. The index of Alan Knight's highly regarded Porfirians, Liberals and Peasants lists thirty-seven pages under ““Zapata, Emiliano.””Womack is cited fifty-six times on twenty-three of them. Not infrequently, when Knight cites other accounts of Zapata's rebellion, Womack is the underlying source. And underlying Womack's account is that of John Steinbeck and Elia Kazan's film ¡¡Viva Zapata!! The cinematic influence of their true invention is most evident in Womack's account of Zapata's Porfirian period, with which this piece is largely concerned. Cuatro déécadas despuéés de su publicacióón, la obra maestra de John Womack, Zapata and the Mexican Revolution, sigue siendo el recuento definitivo del hombre y de su movimiento y la base de lo que generalmente se cree son los hechos reales. Tambiéén es, quizáás, el trabajo máás citado de habla inglesa de la historia de Améérica Latina. Esto no es una hipéérbole. El ííndice del tan admirado libro de Alan Knight, Porfirians, Liberals and Peasants cita treinta y siete pááginas en ““Zapata, Emiliano.”” Womack es citado cincuenta y seis veces en veinte y tres de ellas. No es infrecuente que cuando Knight cita otras referencias de la rebelióón de Zapata, Womack es la fuente ulterior. Sin embargo, en la historia de Womack se puede discernir a la vez la influencia de John Steinbeck y la pelíícula de Elia Kazan, ¡¡Viva Zapata!! Este documento explora esta influencia como un llamado a reconocer y ejercer las poderosas fuentes no verbales (pictóóricas, cinematográáficas y musicales) que dan forma a nuestra percepcióón del pasado.

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The Sword was Their Passport: A History of American Filibustering in the Mexican Revolution. By Harris Gaylord Warren, Assistant Professor of Latin-American History, Louisiana State University. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1943. Pp. viii, 286. $3.00.)

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/49.1.135 ◽

1943 ◽

Keyword(s):

Latin American ◽

American History ◽

Baton Rouge ◽

Mexican Revolution ◽

Assistant Professor ◽

State University ◽

Latin American History ◽

Louisiana State University ◽

History Of

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Revolution and Revolutionary Movements in Latin America: A Special Teaching and Research Collection of The Americas

The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History ◽

10.1017/tam.2016.96 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 74 (S1) ◽

pp. S3-S12

Author(s):

Erica Toffoli

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Latin American ◽

American History ◽

Large Scale ◽

Mexican Revolution ◽

Colonial Period ◽

Sociopolitical Change ◽

Latin American History ◽

Research Collection ◽

Revolutionary Movements

This curated collection of The Americas explores revolution and revolutionary movements in Latin American history from the colonial period to the present. This theme embraces events and processes contributing to the courses, outcomes, and reactions to both moments conventionally labeled “revolutions” in Latin American history, such as large-scale events like the Mexican Revolution, and more disparate efforts to secure—or resist—sociopolitical change.

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