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Porfirio Diaz
The fall of Porfirio Diaz has traditionally been presented as a watershed between old and new: an old style repressive and conservative government, and the more democratic and representative system that flowered in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. Now this view is being challenged by a new generation of historians, who point out that Diaz originally rose to power in alliance with anti-conservative forces and was a modernising force as well as a dictator. Drawing together the threads of this revisionist reading of the Porfiriato, Garner reassesses a political career that spanned more than forty years, and examines the claims that post-revolutionary Mexico was not the break with the past that the revolutionary inheritors claimed.
Porfirio Diaz
Excerpt from Porfirio Diaz: Seven Times President of Mexico Simply because he thought I had done something for his country in Mexico as I Saw It, and because I did not want to be commissioned or paid for my work - but undertook it as an independent person, and a friend. Simple reasons, but they won his heart, and I can only regret my own inability to draw his character more dramatically for the world. He deserves the pen of a John Morley, who has so graphically given us the characteristics and personality of a statesman in his Life of Gladstone, whom in some ways Diaz resembles. He te sembles him in his quiet simplicity, the charm of his home life, and his keen interest in many varied subjec...
Porfirio Diaz
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Porfirio Diaz
Porfirio Diaz-President of Mexico, the Master Builder of a Great Commonwealth, is a 1910 biography of Porfirio Diaz (1830-1915), a Mexican general and politician who served seven terms as President of Mexico, a total of 31 years, from 1877 to 1880 and from 1884 to 1911.
