| The Life and Times of Pancho Villa Contributor(s): Katz, Friedrich (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804730466 ISBN-13: 9780804730464 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1998 Annotation: 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 Division 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. 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - History | Latin America - Mexico |
| Dewey: 972.081 |
| LCCN: 97047271 |
| Lexile Measure: 1480 |
| Physical Information: 2.11" H x 6.94" W x 9.96" (3.75 lbs) 1004 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - Mexican - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A "Best Book of 1998" Library Journal selection "This is the definitive work on Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.... The work is exhaustively researched and scrupulously documented; it also makes for engrossing reading, as Latin America specialist Katz takes hold of the legend, gives it a good shaking, and comes up with something far more complex."-Library Journal starred review "A splendid work that can be enjoyed by the general reader and by scholars of the period on both sides of the border." -The Journal of American History |