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Author Britton, John A., author

Title Revolution and ideology : images of the Mexican Revolution in the United States / John A. Britton
Published Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Revolution in Context; 2 A Search for Meaning; 3 Revolutionary Enthusiasm; 4 The Limits of the Techniques of Hospitality; 5 Reactions on the Left and the Right; 6 The Liberal Mainstream and Radical Undercurrents; 7 Two Errant Pilgrims and an Anthropologist; 8 Pilgrims without a Shrine; 9 Mexico under Cárdenas; 10 The Revolution beneath the Revolutionary Image; 11 Friendly Dissenters; 12 The Changing Image; Illustrations; 13 From Selective Amnesia to New Liberal Orthodoxy; 14 The Persistence of Doubt; 15 A Relevant Legacy
NotesBibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary Mexico and the United States share a border of more than 2,000 miles, and their histories and interests have often intertwined. The Mexican Revolution, which began in 1910 and continued in one form or another for the next forty years, was keenly observed by U.S. citizens, especially those who were directly involved in Mexico through property ownership, investment, missionary work, tourism, journalism, and education. Historian John A. Britton examines contemporary accounts written by Americans commenting on fifty years of social upheaval south of the border. The Mexican revolution differed from many others in this century in that Marxist-Leninist theory was only one of many radical and reformist influences. With the recent collapse of communist regimes, historians and political scientists are looking at Mexico today with renewed interest in its mostly nonideological revolution. Britton draws on accounts of cultural, business, and political leaders as well as journalists and academics. Radical journalist John Reed, novelists Katherine Anne Porter and D.H. Lawrence, social critics Stuart Chase and Waldo Frank, and banker-diplomat Dwight Morrow are among the best known commentators. Radical writers John Kenneth Turner and Carleton Beals, academics Herbert I. Priestley and Frank Tannenbaum, and Communists Bertram Wolfe and Joseph Freeman bring their unique points of view to bear on Mexican political events
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-264) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Public opinion -- United States -- History
Ideology -- Political aspects -- United States
HISTORY -- Revolutionary.
Ideology -- Political aspects
Politics and government
Public opinion
Public opinion, American
Mexicaanse Revolutie.
Publieke opinie.
Politieke aspecten.
SUBJECT Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920 -- Foreign public opinion, American
Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1910-1946. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084613
Subject Mexico
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813162232
0813162238