10 - The Mexican Revolution, 1910–1920

Summary

printed sources, bibliography and historiography

The most inclusive and best organized guide to the literature on the Mexican Revolution is W. D. Raat, The Mexican Revolution: An Annotated Guide to Recent Scholarship (Boston, 1982). Indispensable guides to official documents, pamphlets, newspapers, manifestos, and published correspondence are L. González y González (ed.), Fuentes de la historia contemporánea de México: Libros y folletos, 3 vols. (Mexico, D.F., 1962–3) and S. R. Ross (ed.), Fuentes de la historia contemporánea de México: Periódicos y revistas, 4 vols. (Mexico, D.F., 1965–76). The most important body of printed materials is I. Fabela and J. E. de Fabela (eds.), Documentos históricos de la revolución mexicana, 27 vols. and index (Mexico, D.F., 1960–76). Useful reprints from the Mexican press appear in M. González Ramírez (ed.), Fuentes para la historia de la revolución mexicana, 4 vols. (Mexico, D.F., 1954–7).

Bibliographies and historiographic articles with analysis of the main currents in the literature on the Revolution include: D. M. Bailey, ‘Revisionism and the recent historiography of the Mexican Revolution’, HAHR, 58/1 (1978), 62–79; G. Bringas and D. Mascareno, La prensa de los obreros mexicanos, 1870–1970: Hemerografía comentada (Mexico, D.F., 1979); C. W. Reynolds, ‘The economic historiography of twentieth-century Mexico’, in Investigaciones contemporáneas sobre la historia de México: Memorias de la tercera reunión de historiadores mexicanos y norteamericanos (Mexico, D.F., and Austin, Tex., 1971), 339–57; J. D. Rutherford, An Annotated Bibliography of the Novels of the Mexican Revolution (Troy, N. Y., 1972); E. Suárez Gaona (ed.), El movimiento obrero mexicano: Bibliografía (Mexico, D.F., 1978); H. W. Tobler, ‘Zur Historiographie der mexikanischen Revolution, 1910–1940’, JGSWGL, 12 (1975), 286–331; and J. Womack, Jr., ‘Mexican political historiography, 1959–1969’, in Investigaciones contemporáneas, 478–92