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C O U R S E
A History of the World since 1300
Jeremy Adelman, Princeton University
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C O U R S E L E C T U R E The 1910 Mexican Revolution Notes taken on August 2, 2017 by Edward Tanguay |
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Mexico
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a new regime practicing old regime tactics
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had lost almost half of its territory in a war with the United States in 1848
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after 1850s began a process of rebuilding
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enjoyed a pattern of export-led growth
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borrowing capital from Europe and the United States
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to produce primary staples for other people's consumption
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races
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Indian or mestizo
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mestizo: who have abandoned tribal life but retain an indigenous identity
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much of the profits from the connection to the global economy when to those of European descent
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General Porfirio Diaz
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President of Mexico from 1876 to 1911
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slogan for this age: order and progress
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maintained order
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rigging elections
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repression
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pursued progress
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foreign investment
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trade booming
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railroad building
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was capable at balancing both order and progress
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put pressure on the indigenous peasantry
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his regime after many decades in power began to falter
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social unrest began to rise
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people demanded that there be transparent and fair elections
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gave an interview to Pearson's magazine, an American magazine
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interviewer: James Creelman
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the role of the press on popular opinion was changing
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Porfirio said it was time to hold elections and let someone else rule Mexico
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if one is going to make a public announcement like this, one should live up to it, but Porfirio did not
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political parties began to organize
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Porfirio adversaries made themselves known
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when Porfirio saw this, he decided to renege on his promise to hold elections
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Porfirio was brought down
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what ensued was the Mexican Revolution of 1910
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attempted to reform the state under duress
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similar to China
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difficult to accomplish
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a case of too little, too late
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social discontent came from the bottom to the surface
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Pancho Villa (1878-1923)
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Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919)
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led a peasant revolution
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Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata
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brought down what was left of the reformist state
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guerilla insurgents who swept into the capital, displaced the state
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Pancho Villa himself is sitting in the presidential chair
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Pancho Villa offered the chair to Emiliano Zapata, but Zapata declined, saying that the chair reeked of power
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1917: gathered together to write a constitution
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1920: beginning the process of building a nationalist, revolutionary state
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a model that became common in what became what is called the Third World
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Mexico becomes a model of revolutionist, state-driven government