Alongside Moctezuma and Benito Ju rez, Pancho Villa is probably the best-known figure in Mexican history. Villa legends pervade not only Mexico but the United States and beyond, existing not only in the popular mind and tradition but in ballads and movies. There are legends of Villa the Robin Hood, Villa the womanizer, and Villa as the only foreigner who has attacked the mainland of the United States since the War of 1812 and gotten away with it. Whether exaggerated or true to life, these legends have resulted in Pancho Villa the leader obscuring his revolutionary movement, and the myth in turn obscuring the leader. Based on decades of research in the archives of seven countries, this definitive study of Villa aims to separate myth from history. So much attention has focused on Villa himself that the characteristics of his movement, which is unique in Latin American history and in some ways unique among twentieth-century revolutions, have been forgotten or neglected. Villa s Divisi-n del Norte was probably the largest revolutionary army that Latin America ever produced. Moreover, this was one of the few revolutionary movements with which a U.S. administration attempted, not only to come to terms, but even to forge an alliance. In contrast to Lenin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, and Fidel Castro, Villa came from the lower classes of society, had little education, and organized no political party.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN-13
9780804730464
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96226286
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Life and Times of Pancho Villa
Author
Friedrich Katz
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
1004 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
1701g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Friedrich Katz
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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