Mexico
The Mexican Revolution was one of the great revolutionary upheavals of the twentieth century: beginning in 1910, it still continues - at least according to the official view of the Mexican Government. |
After he was formally condemned to death in Moscow, the Mexican government offered Trotsky refuge and protection, on December 6th 1936. Published in History Today, Volume: 61 Issue: 12, 2011
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Robin Bayley tells how his great grandfather, a Mancunian businessman, became caught up in the tumultuous period of worker unrest that paved the way for the Mexican Revolution. |
Richard Cavendish charts the events leading up to the Mexican dictator, Porfirio Diaz's, fall from power in 1911. |
The death-obsessed and inward-looking Aztec civilisation sowed the seeds of its own destruction, argues Tim Stanley. Published in History Today, Volume: 61 Issue: 3
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Hugh Thomas tells Paul Lay about his unparalleled research into the lives of the extraordinary generation of men who conquered the New World for Golden Age Spain. |
Godfrey Hodgson tells the colourful story of Jane McManus, political journalist, land speculator, pioneer settler in Texas and propagandist who believed that the United States had a ‘manifest destiny’ to rule Mexico and the Caribbean. Published in History Today, Volume: 55 Issue: 3
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Julia Swanson tells the extraordinary tale of her English grandfather and his family who were tragically caught up in the violence of the Mexican Revolution. Published in History Today, Volume: 54 Issue: 6
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December 2nd, 1547 |
Fernando Cervantes explores the conversion process from polytheistic human sacrifice to devotion to the Mother Church. Published in History Today, Volume: 44 Issue: 4
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Ross Hassig questions whether the rationale behind the fighting in Mexico which Cortes encountered in 1519 has not been misunderstood. Published in History Today, Volume: 40 Issue: 2
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'Compare the wealth and refinement of cities such as Mexico... in the middle of the eighteenth century, with the austere simplicity, verging on poverty, of... Philadelphia, a misleading splendour; what was dawn for the United States was twilight for Latin America...' Octavio Paz Published in History Today, Volume: 34 Issue: 5
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The Mexican Revolution was one of the great revolutionary upheavals of the twentieth century: beginning in 1910, it still continues - at least according to the official view of the Mexican Government. |
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