...George F. G. Little Victoriano Huerta: a Reappraisal . By Sherman William L. and Greenleaf Richard E. . México , 1960 . Centro de Estudios Mexicanos . Appendix. Bibliography . Pp. 164 . Paper . Copyright 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 ...

...George J. Rausch, Jr. * The author is a member of the staff of the University of Illinois Library. Copyright 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 O ne of the most important and controversial personalities of the Mexican Revolution was Victoriano Huerta. Huerta appeared from...

... crusade against Victoriano Huerta continues to fascinate historians of the Mexican Revolution. Although several recent studies have touched upon this confrontation, Kenneth J. Grieb’s solid monograph adds understanding and an abundance of detail. His revisionist examination of Victoriano Huerta reflects...

... of the disillusion frustration, and overwhelming difficulties encountered by a nation that determined to implement major agrarian reform. Victoriano Salado Álvarez was on the scene. He watched with keen interest the developments in Mexico. From our perspective today we know that the social-economic revolution...

... of the Embassy” was negotiated, President Francisco I. Madero and Vice-President José María Pino Suarez were assassinated, General Victoriano Huerta assumed the presidency, and the Constitutionalist revolution was conceived. The ninth volume of the Documentos históricos de la Revolución Mexicana (and the fifth...

... and Pancho Villa. These two unlikely paladins stand in sharp contrast to the apostates: Francisco Madero, Emiliano Zapata, Venustiano Carranza, Álvaro Obregón, José Vasconcelos, and especially Plutarco Elias Calles. Among the myths which the author seeks to explode is that Victoriano Huerta was responsible...

...Roberta Day Corbitt Artículos de costumbres . By Betancourt José Victoriano . [ No. 2 of the fifth series of Cuadernos de cultura .] ( Habana : Publicaciones del Ministerio de Educación, Dirección de Cultura , 1941 . Pp. 227 . Paper.) Copyright 1942 by Duke University Press...

...Charles E. Nowell El nombre América: libros y mapas que lo impusieron (descripción y crítica histórica) . By Sanz Carlos . Madrid , 1959 . Librería General Victoriano Suárez . Maps. Illustrations . Pp. 244 . Paper . Copyright 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 ...

...Donald F. Lach Beng Sím Po Cam o espejo rico del claro corazón. Primer libro chino traducido en lengua castellana (a. 1592) . By Cobo Fr. Juan O.P. Edited by Sanz Carlos . Madrid , 1959 . Librería General Victoriano Suárez . Illustrations. Appendix . Pp. 212 . Paper...

...Charles E. Nowell Bibliografía general de la Carta de Colón . By Sanz Carlos . Madrid , 1958 . Librería General Victoriano Suárez . Illustrations . Pp. 305 . Paper . Copyright 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 The words “Columbus letter,” unless otherwise indicated...

... evolves from bandit origins to revolutionary generalship in the civil wars of 1914-1915. The Villista view of the Madero Revolution of 1910-1911, the revolutionary wars against Victoriano Huerta, the Aguascalientes Convention of 1914, and the 1915 conflicts of the triumvirate of Venustiano Carranza...

... greatest attack on Chilean policy is leveled at individuals whose lack of vision and interest led to what he calls a sacrifice of Patagonia. José Victoriano Lastarria, Diego Barros Arana, and Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna were, in the author’s mind, those who had been most culpable in blinding official policy...

... side if they were given any assurance that they would not encounter rebuff and hostility.” Representatives of such forces named on latter pages as victims of such rebuff and hostility include Porfirio Díaz, Victoriano Huerta, and the late Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. Concerning our tardy rebuff...

... Victoriano Huerta were “reactionairies.” But now, more than a half century after the Convention, Mexicans are beginning to write the history of this era as it should be written—by using all of the sources available in several countries and many languages. Amaya’s book is significant as indicating a trend...

..., the emphasis has been away from the most dynamic, if less spectacular leader—and on Emiliano Zapata, Francisco Villa, or Venustiano Carranza, or on the “Bloody usurper,” General Victoriano Huerta. Hall shows that Obregón was able to build a power base, at first in the Northwest and then nationally...

...); that Victoriano Huerta ordered the execution of Gregorio Ruiz on the first day of the Decena Trágica (p. 99); and that the whaleboat carrying the United States sailors at Tampico in April 1914 was flying the American flag (p. 140). Like few other historical phenomena, the Mexican Revolution has attracted...

... section is Foner’s treatment of the political machinations of Luis Morones, the Flores Magón brothers, Victoriano Huerta, and Venustiano Carranza to create or control trade-union groups in Mexico during the revolutionary period of 1910-16. This is a suitable introductory book for the reader interested...

... in the Zócalo at the outbreak of the decena trágica , which ended with the murder of Francisco Madero and the seizure of power by Victoriano Huerta. These salient facts are well known to all students of modern Mexican history, but Niemeyer’s important work is the first detailed, impartial, and fully documented...

... of the Coahuilan’s lukewarm interest in land reform. And he served briefly in Victoriano Huerta’s government, again looking for a strong military leader. Affiliation with the Villistas and then the Carrancistas followed. His ideas and writings greatly influenced Article 27 of the Constitution of 1917—so much so...

... Aid Foundation, a vast philanthropical organization that distributed food, clothing, and money to the needy.” Pp. 316, 319.) The general thrust of this work is reformist. As an illustration, the authors do not accept some recent suggestions that the regime of Victoriano Huerta made any genuine...