TY - JOUR
AU - Hall, Linda B.
AB - 306 Reviews of B ooks history. Saragoza's argument is clear, though his prose the Casa del Obrero Mundial, the most important labor is sometimes inelegant. The main weakness is the organization at the time, joined the Constitutionalists against the Villistas in February 1915, they were cer- author's decision not to describe in more detail the tainly adhering to the "likely winner" (p. 307). In Grupo's economic power (size of its enterprises, employ- addition, as Hart ably explains, they had little fellow ment, profits, and so forth). Thus, the reader can only feeling for the rural revolutionaries who followed guess how entrepreneurs running a nonessential in- Pancho Villa and particularly Emiliano Zapata, seeing dustry (a brewery and glass works) could stand off the them as too "primitive" (p. 305) or too Catholic and too Mexican government. unlikely to succeed either militarily or politically. An MARK WASSERMAN alliance with the Constitutionalists was the only alter- Rutgers University native to staying out of the fray altogether and seemed to offer more rewards. It should be emphasized, how- Revolutionary Mexico: The Coming and JOHN MASON HART. ever, that the participation of the Casa was of limited Process of the Mexican Revolution. Berkeley and 
TI - John Mason Hart. Revolutionary Mexico: The Coming and Process of the Mexican Revolution. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1987. Pp. xi, 478. $35.00
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/95.1.306
DA - 1990-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/john-mason-hart-revolutionary-mexico-the-coming-and-process-of-the-3dHZ2N3zn7
SP - 306
EP - 307
VL - 95
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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