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This accessible account guides the reader through a pivotal time in Mexican history, including such critical episodes as the reign of Santa Anna, the US-Mexican War, and the Porfiriato. Colin M. MacLachlan and William H. Beezley recount how the century between Mexico's independence and the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution had a lasting impact on the course of the nation's history.

Often translated as ""revolt,"" a pronunciamiento was a formal, written protest, typically drafted as a list of grievances or demands, that could result in an armed rebellion. The first of three volumes on the phenomenon of the pronunciamiento, this collection brings together leading scholars to investigate the origins of these forceful petitions.

The postrevolutionary reconstruction of the Mexican government did not easily or immediately reach all corners of the country. National policy reverberated through Mexico's local and political networks in countless different ways and resulted in a myriad of regional arrangements. It is this process of diffusion, politicking, and conflict that Benjamin T. Smith examines in this volume.

A study of the use of propaganda in Mexico during WWII to promote a policy of national unity and patriotism. It examines the pervasive domestic and foreign propaganda strategies in Mexico during World War II and their impact on Mexican culture, charting the evolution of these campaigns through popular culture, advertisements, and art.

On November 20, 1910, Mexicans initiated the world's first popular social revolution. This accessible and gripping account guides the reader through the intricacies of the revolution, focusing on the revolutionaries as a group and the implementation of social and political changes.