A Nation Emerges - Villa and Zapata: A History of the Mexican Revolution

From the exhibit, A Nation Emerges ; The Mexican Revolution Revealed , shown at Central Library from September 8, 2011 - June 3, 2012. Featuring iconic images from early postcards and period photographs, the exhibit recounts this complex, multifaceted chapter in Mexico's history. Images courtesy of the Getty Research Institute.

 

About the book: Villa and Zapata vividly chronicles the decade of turbulent events in which the ruthless Pancho Villa and his army of ex-cowboys in the north and Emiliano Zapata, recruiting his infantry from the sugar plantations in the south, successfully waged a devastating war on two fronts and brought down a string of autocrats in Mexico City. This rousing history recounts, too, the downfall of these two revolutionary heroes who- despite their triumph and only meeting, in 1914, in the Mexican capital- failed to make common cause and fell victim to intrigues more treacherous than their own.

 

Paperback, 459 pages.