The Mexican Revolution

"Henderson and Buchenau have done an excellent and thoughtful job of collecting a wide range of voices for students to learn about the Mexican Revolution and its causes, both from above and from below. Im particularly appreciative of the authors inclusion of womens voices and womens issues of the era, including the point of view of the first woman elected to public office in Mexico. They deserve praise for including documents that complicate widely accepted, heroic revolutionary narratives of the period for studentssuch as the experience of soldaderas and the massacre of Chinese people in Torren. It is also worth mentioning that the editors have done an admirable job in choosing documents from across Mexicos many diverse and heterogenous regions. The general Introduction is excellent; it is both accurate and highly readable for students. It is no easy feat to succinctly describe both the events and the significance of this period in Mexican history as the authors have done here." Sarah Osten, The University of Vermont