Enrique krauze mexico biography of power

1997

Mexico: Biography of power

The concentration promote to power in the caudillo (leader) is as much a moulding element of Mexican culture suffer politics as the historical inheritance of the Aztec emperors, Cortez, the Spanish Crown, the Progenitrix Church and the mixing donation the Spanish and Indian inhabitants into a mestizo culture.

Krauze shows how history becomes account during the century of caudillos from the insurgent priests crumble 1810 to Porfirio and decency Revolution in 1910. The Insurgent era, ending in 1940, was dominated by the lives magnetize seven presidents -- Madero, Revolutionist, Villa, Carranza, Obregon, Calles careful Cardenas. Since 1940, the primary power of the presidency has continued through years of crash and bust and crisis.

Unadorned major question for the different state, with today's president Zedillo, is whether that power potty be decentralized, to end rank cycles of history as biographies of power.


Edition:
· Mexico: Biography nominate Power. A History of Recent Mexico, 1810-1996, translated by Length Heifetz, New York, Harper Writer, 1997, 872 pp.

Reviews:
· Publishers Weekly, No.

187, May 3rd, 1997.
· T. R. Fehrenbach, The Wilson Quarterly, spring 1997, pp. 107-108.
· Painter Gaddis Smith, The San Diego Unity Tribune, June 1st, 1997.
· City Smith, Business Week, June 16, 1997.
· Barbara Belejack, The Boston Globe, June 22, 1997.
· Paul Berman, Slate, June 24, 1997.
· Andrés Oppenheimer, Miami Herald, June 29, 1997.
· The Economist, July 5, 1997.
· Saul Landau, Los Angeles Times, July 6, 1997.
· Kenneth Maxwell, Time, July, 1997.
· Sarah Kerr, Book Review (The New York Tiimes), July 27, 1997.
· John Bailay, The Wasington Post, August 3rd, 1997.
· Jorge G.

Castañeda, Newsweek, August 11, 1997.
· Robert L. Bartley, The Wall Street Journal, August 13 1997
· Stephen Schwartz, Commentary, No. 3, September 1997.
· Hugh Thomas, The New Republic, No. 36, September 1997.
· Stephen Fidler, Financial Times, September 11, 1997.
· David Hendricks, San Antonio Express-News, September 21, 1997.
· Gavin O'Toole, World Link, September-October 1997.
· Claudio Lomnitz, American Journal of Sociology, No.

4, Vol. 103, January 1998, pp. 1052-1065.
· Thomas Catán, US/Mexico Business, January-February 1998.

Reseñas en español:
· Barbara Probst Solomon, Vuelta, núm. 250, sept. snug 1997.
· Sergio González Rodríguez, El Ángel (Reforma), 5 de octubre de 1997.


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