This unique volume examines revolutionary Mexico's state governors-the most significant intermediaries between the national government and the people it ruled. Leading scholars study governors from ten different states of Mexico during the eventful first half of the twentieth ...

Jürgen Buchenau is professor of history and director of Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. William H. Beezley is professor of history at the University of Arizona.

Chapter 1: The Role of State Governors in the Mexican Revolution
Chapter 2: Benito Juárez Maza of Oaxaca: A Revolutionary Governor?
Chapter 3: Salvador Alvarado of Yucatán: Revolutionary Reforms, Revolutionary Women
Chapter 4: Plutarco Elías Calles of Sonora: A Mexican Jacobin
Chapter 5: Adalberto Tejeda of Veracruz: Radicalism and Reaction
Chapter 6: José Guadalupe Zuno Hernández and the Revolutionary Process in Jalisco
Chapter 7: Tomás Garrido Canabal of Tabasco: Road Building and Revolutionary Reform
Chapter 8: Marte R. Gómez of Tamaulipas: Governing Agrarian Revolution
Chapter 9: Efraín Gutiérrez of Chiapas: The Revolutionary Bureaucrat
Chapter 10: Maximino Avila Camacho of Puebla
Chapter 11: Baltasar Leyva Mancilla of Guerrero: Learning Hegemony