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Article: Forge of Progress, Crucible of Revolt: The Origins of the Mexican Revolution in La Comarca Lagunera, 1880-1911.(Brief Article)
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- March 22, 1996
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The Origins of the Mexican Revolution in La Comarca Lagunera, 1880-1911. By William K. Meyers. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994. Pp. 293. $39.95.)
Regionally based histories of the political economy during the era of Porfirio Diaz [1876-1911] offer new understandings of Mexico's rapid integration into the increasingly capitalist world dominated by the United States and of the origins of the Mexican Revolution that challenged such integration. William Meyers' study of the Laguna region extends the findings of Hector Aguilar Camin on Sonora, Mark Wasserman on Chihuahua, and Allen Wells on Yucatan by looking at the interplay of rapid, externally ...