The Americas · War

Mexican Revolution

1910-1920 CE, with longer political aftermath · Mexico

Revolution over dictatorship, land, labor and political power destroyed the Porfirian order and produced a new constitution, but conflict and reform remained regionally uneven.

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How the setting appeared

Railways, haciendas, mines, border towns, villages and national capitals became military and political corridors.

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How people lived

Rural and urban families faced recruitment, hunger, displacement and epidemic disease; women served as organizers, soldiers, nurses, workers and household providers.

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How people worked

Rail transport, oil, mining, printing, farming and weapons supply shaped armies and regional movements.

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Belief, ritual and worship

Catholic institutions, anticlerical politics and local religious practice intersected differently across factions and later state policy.

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World-atlas stage: Industrial and colonial age
Region: North America · Mexico
Languages and scripts: Spanish; Nahuatl; Mayan languages; Mixtec; Zapotec; Yaqui and many other Indigenous languages
Important people: Francisco Madero; Emiliano Zapata; Francisco Villa; Venustiano Carranza; Petra Herrera; Carmen Serdan
Events and changes: Fall of Porfirio Diaz; Plan de Ayala; Constitution of 1917; Factional civil wars
Evidence confidence: High from extensive archives, photography and oral history; no one faction represents the whole revolution.

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Historical geography

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Evidence register

Guides used for this record

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CIT-LOC-MEXICAN-REVOLUTION-AMERICAS

The Mexican Revolution and the United States: Overview

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/mexican-revolution-and-the-united-states/overview.html

Library of Congress

CIT-AMERICAS-INEHRM-MEXICAN-REVOLUTION

Revolucion Mexicana

https://www.inehrm.gob.mx/es/inehrm/Revolucion_Mexicana

Instituto Nacional de Estudios Historicos de las Revoluciones de Mexico

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