Another milestone year, 2010 represents the 100th anniversary of the start of the Mexican Revolution, a sprawling and intense conflict that left an estimated one to two million dead; and the 200th anniversary of the start of the Mexican Wars for Independence from Spain. In popular culture, a much bigger spotlight has shone on the more recent Revolution, which was also a complex civil war. Both left Mexico devastated yet surviving.
Recommended books include Timothy J. Henderson's The Mexican Wars for Independence (2010) and Elena Poniatowska's Las Soldaderas: Women of the Mexican Revolution (2006).
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Mexico has such a rich heritage and history. I've always been intersted in it though I've never had time to truly immerse myself.
ReplyDeleteExcellent suggestions. Might I add Shirley Soto's "Emergence of Modern Mexican Woman: Her Participatrion in Revolution and Struggle for Equality, 1910-1940," which I read on a train trip in 1992 or so on my way to visiting my parents in Raleigh, North Carolina when they lived there.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comments! Charles, agreed on all counts; Johnny, much appreciated -- I'll check it out!
ReplyDeleteCheers'