This acclaimed reinterpretation of the Mexican Revolution, based on new evidence obtained in Mexican and American archives and on the historical literature of recent years, is available here in the tenth anniversary edition, complete with a new Preface by the author.

John Mason Hart is Professor of History at the University of Houston. His previous books include Revolutionary Mexico: The Coming and Process of the Mexican Revolution, Tenth Anniversary edition (California 1998).

"A probing and passionate inquiry. . . . Mr. Hart's book goes a long way toward dispelling myths and clarifying the process of Mexican history. . . . It is one of the strengths of Mr. Hart's book that he not only understands the presence of the past in Mexico, but that he organizes the mutual responses of traditionalism and modernization so clearly."—Carlos Fuentes, New York Times Book Review

"An important book . . . valuable for both policy makers and concerned citizens in presenting the Mexican nationalist side of the tense Mexican-American relationship, and equally so for the questions it raises about the dangers of headlong economic development."—Leonard Bushkoff, Christian Science Monitor

"The amount of research here is immense. Hart creates a complex Mexico, torn by two centuries of oppression, erupting into bitter civil war, and finally coming to terms in a peaceful, conservative economic order. Hart's range is impressive—world revolutions, Spanish mentality, capitalist necessities."—Book Reader

"Perhaps Hart's most significant contribution is placing the Revolution in the context of worldwide nationalistic uprisings which occurred in the early 20th-century in places such as Russia, Iran and China. An impressive piece of scholarship."—Books of the Southwest

"This is the best book on Mexico I have ever seen. . . . The author's achievement, I believe is not merely in the remarkably deep and sustained use of new information, but, equally, in his success in envisioning the sweeping analysis which he then carries through the whole work."—Clifton B. Kroeber, Occidental College

The Harvey Johnson Book Award, The Southwestern Council on Latin American Studies