HISP 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Debt Bondage, Mexican Revolution, Peon
23 Dec 2018
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To what extent it can be compared to other revolutionary movements of the time (the russian revolution and the land conflicts in bolivia and. Urban cities in mexico were transforming, while rural countryside remained in traditional class relationships, leading to the predominantly rural mexico to intense econ and political struggles. Revolution rooted in land rights, and the forced removal of peasantry from colonial lands. But so many other factors like race, gender, social forces, all cultural, econ, political addressed. In morelos, rural people took up revolution to defend, restore titles to lands they had for gen. Under zapata"s leadership, peasants of morelo joined revolution in 1910 first joined over issue of irregularity in the process of presidential succession. While resolving that by preventing porfirio diaz from stealing election did nothing to address the other underlying problems. Mexican revolution began as political dispute in 1910, culminating in new constitution in 1917.
