By Suzanne B. Pasztor
This e-book fills an important hole within the scholarship at the Mexican Revolution via supplying an in depth background of the northeastern nation of Coahuila from the overdue Portifirian period to 1920. It evaluates the social, political, and financial advancements that contributed to innovative job inside of Coahuila, and that contributed to shaping the progressive activities led by way of Francisco I. Madero and Venustiano Carranza. Pasztor explores the position performed through the extensive Coahuila-Texas border within the financing of the Mexican Revolution and she or he addresses the revolution's speedy results via a research of the reforms brought throughout the governorships of Carranza and Gustavo Espinosa Mireles.
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