The life and times of Pancho Villa / / Friedrich Katz

• Autore: Katz Friedrich
• Pubblicazione: Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 1998
• Descrizione fisica: xv, 985 p. : ill. ; ; 26 cm
• Disciplina: 972.08/16
• Soggetto topico: Social movements - Mexico - History
• Soggetto geografico: Mexico History Revolution, 1910-1920; Chihuahua (Mexico : State) History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue -- PART ONE From Outlaw to Revolutionary -- CHAPTER ONE From the Frontier to the Border -- CHAPTER TWO The Revolution That Neither Its Supreme Leader Nor Its Opponents Expected. The Chihuahuan Revolution, I9IO-I9II, and the Role of Pancho Villa -- CHAPTER THREE Disillusion and Counterrevolution. Chihuahua, 1912-1913 -- CHAPTER FOUR An Unrequited Love. Villa and Madero, 1912-1913 -- PART TWO From Revolutionary to National Leader -- CHAPTER FIVE From Exile to Governor of Chihuahua: The Rise of Villa in 1913 -- CHAPTER SIX Four Weeks. That Shook Chihuahua. Villa's Brief but Far-Reaching Governorship -- CHAPTER SEVEN The Villista Leaders -- CHAPTER EIGHT The Division del Norte -- CHAPTER NINE Villa's Emergence as a National Leader. His Relations with the United States and His Conflict with Carranza -- CHAPTER TEN The Elusive Search for Peace -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Villismo in Practice Chihuahua Under Villa, 1913-1915 -- CHAPTER TWELVE The New Civil War in Mexico. Villismo on the Offensive -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory -- PART THREE From National Leader to Guerrilla Leader -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Villa's Two- Front War with Carranza and the United States -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Resurgence of Villa in 1916-1917 -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN Villa's Darkest Years. The Savage and Bloody Guerrilla Struggle in Chihuahua, 1917-1920 -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Villa and the Outside World -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Attempt to Create Villismo with a Gentler Face. The Return of Felipe Angeles -- PART FOUR Reconciliation, Peace, and Death -- CHAPTER NINETEEN From Guerrilla Leader to Hacendado -- CHAPTER TWENTY The End and the Survival of Villa -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX On the Archival Trail of Pancho Villa -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Archival Sources -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Alongside Moctezuma and Benito Juárez, 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 División 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. The first part of the book deals with Villa’s early life as an outlaw and his emergence as a secondary leader of the Mexican Revolution, and also discusses the special conditions that transformed the state of Chihuahua into a leading center of revolution. In the second part, beginning in 1913, Villa emerges as a national leader. The author analyzes the nature of his revolutionary movement and the impact of Villismo as an ideology and as a social movement. The third part of the book deals with the years 1915 to 1920: Villa’s guerrilla warfare, his attack on Columbus, New Mexico, and his subsequent decline. The last part describes Villa’s surrender, his brief life as a hacendado, his assassination and its aftermath, and the evolution of the Villa legend. The book concludes with an assessment of Villa’s personality and the character and impact of his movement.
• Titolo autorizzato: The life and times of Pancho Villa
• ISBN: 0-8047-6517-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996247878203316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: ACLS Humanities E-Book.