The wind that swept Mexico, The history of the mexican revolution 1910-1942

Title: The wind that swept Mexico, The history of the mexican revolution 1910-1942

Photographer(s): Historical photo assembled by George R. Leighton

Writer(s): Anita Brenner

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Publisher(s): University of Texas Press., Austin, Texas, USA

Year: 1971

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Language(s): English

Pages: 310

Size: 19 x 25 cm

Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket

Edition: 2nd 1973

Print: The Meriden Gravure Company, Meriden, Connecticut, USA

Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Mexico,1910 -1942

ISBN: 0292701063

The Mexican Revolution began in 1910 with the overthrow of dictator Porfirio Díaz. The Wind That Swept Mexico, originally published in 1943, was the first book to present a broad account of that revolution in its several different phases. In concise but moving words and in memorable photographs, this classic sweeps the reader along from the false peace and plenty of the Díaz era through the doomed administration of Madero, the chaotic years of Villa and Zapata, Carranza and Obregón, to the peaceful social revolution of Cárdenas and Mexico's entry into World War II. The photographs were assembled from many sources by George R. Leighton with the assistance of Anita Brenner and others. Many of the prints were cleaned and rephotographed by the distinguished photographer Walker Evans.