About this book
Through personal experience and extensive travel in Mexico in the late 1900s, the author of “Barbarous Mexico” depicts the circumstances that will trigger the Mexican Revolution of 1910. The rampant, government sanctioned, widespread abuse of human rights in the tobacco and corn plantations of Central and Southeastern Mexico created an atmosphere where peasants, and the working class at large, had to choose between their lives and the revolution. Turner presents a gruesome picture of political and ethnic slavery; how President Diaz policies promoted, encouraged and maintained the system; how foreign actors sanctioned the practices; and ends with an encouraging vision of the Mexican people as a whole. (Summary by Mario Pineda)
Chapters (28)
1Chapter I - The Slaves of Yucatan, part 1
2Chapter I - The Slaves of Yucatan, part 2
3Chapter 2 - The Extermination of the Yaquis
4Chapter 3 - Over the Exile Road, part 1
5Chapter 3 - Over the Exile Road, part 2
6Chapter 4 - The Contract Slaves of Valle Nacional
7Chapter 5 - In the Valley of Death, part 1
8Chapter 5 - In the Valley of Death, part 2
9Chapter 6 - The Country Peons and the City Poor
10Chapter 7 - The Diaz System, part 1
11Chapter 7 - The Diaz System, part 2
12Chapter 8 - Repressive Elements of the Diaz Machine, part 1
13Chapter 8 - Repressive Elements of the Diaz Machine, part 2
14Chapter 9 - The Crushing of Opposition Parties
15Chapter 10 - The Eighth Unanimous Election of Diaz, part 1
16Chapter 10 - The Eighth Unanimous Election of Diaz, part 2
17Chapter 11 - Four Mexican Strikes, part 1
18Chapter 11 - Four Mexican Strikes, part 2
19Chapter 12 - Critics and Corroboration, part 1
20Chapter 12 - Critics and Corroboration, part 2
21Chapter 13 - The Diaz-American Press Conspiracy
22Chapter 14 - The American Partners of Diaz
23Chapter 15 - American Persecution of the Enemies of Diaz, part 1
24Chapter 15 - American Persecution of the Enemies of Diaz, part 2
25Chapter 16 - Diaz Himself, part 1
26Chapter 16 - Diaz Himself, part 2
27Chapter 17 - The Mexican People
28Publisher's Note to Fourth Edition
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