Historiography Mexican Revolution

Chapter 2

British historian Alan Knight

Madero was out of touch with landless peasants as an urban liberal, alienated ranchers, not progressive or forward thinking

US historian Philip Russell

said Villa and Zapata’s decision not cooperating against Carranza as most important for revolution

Mexican historian Salvador Rueda

Plan de Ayala enabled modern political language making peasants be taken seriously, zapatistas + peasants became focal point in Mexico

Austrian Historian Friedrich Katz

Zapata’s movement was most homogenous in Mexico, peasants felt seen by Plan de Ayala

US historian John Womack Jr

revolution was a new order of capitalist control, wouldn’t lead to communism

Mexican writer Anita Brenner

constitution was written to accommodate socialism or capitalism and was dependent on who was president