Name: The Mexican Revolution
Price: 19.10 EUR
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Author: Adolfo Gilly
ISBN: 9781595581235

Type

Physical Book

Author

Adolfo Gilly

Publisher

New Press

Language

English

Pages

416

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1 x 15.2 x 3.1 cm

Weight

0.51 kg.

ISBN

1595581235

ISBN13

9781595581235

Synopsis "The Mexican Revolution"

First published in Spanish in 1971, The Mexican Revolution has been praised by Mexico's Nobel Prize-winning author Octavio Paz as a "notable contribution" to history and is widely recognized as a seminal account of the Mexican Revolution. Written during the author's time as a political prisoner in the famous penitentiary of Lecumberri in Mexico, it sold thousands of copies in its first edition, becoming widely accepted as the official textbook by history faculties in Mexico despite Gilly's continued incarceration. It has gone through more than thirty editions in Mexico and been translated into French and Greek.This comprehensively revised and updated edition of the original text is now available with a foreword by Latin American history scholar Friedrich Katz and a new preface by the author. A true "people's history," The Mexican Revolution is a stirring, bottom-up account of an event whose reverberations are still felt throughout Latin America and the rest of the world.

Adolfo Gilly

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Adolfo Gilly, writer and historian, has published books and essays on Mexico and Latin America. He became a Mexican citizen in 1982. Since 1979, he was a professor in the Graduate Studies Division of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He was a visiting professor and researcher at University of Chicago, Columbia University, University of Maryland, Stanford University, Yale University, New York University, and twice a resident researcher at the National Humanities Center, North Carolina. He regularly collaborated with the newspaper La Jornada. In 2010, UNAM named him professor emeritus.

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