Revolutionary announcement

Emiliano Zapata giving a press conference, as recorded by the Hermanos Alva, about 1915.  From a collection digitalized by the Filmoteca de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in 1998.

I’ll be posting something later today (perhaps), but not much over the next few days.  I have been tied up working on a book (not written by me) … tenatively entitled “The Mexican Revolution Day by Day” … which Editorial Mazatlán will be publishing in Spring 2010.

The 1910-20 Revolution was a complicated, messy affair involving a number of different political and military groups (sometimes allies, sometimes enemies) ranging across a huge geographical region.  Even specialists in the field have trouble keeping the story straight and even military historians can’t always accurately tell you who was winning or losing — or even where armies were — at any given point.

Ray Acosta has spent the last several years breaking down the action chronologically, creating an invaluable to students of Latin American history. And just in time for the Revolutionary Centennial and the Mexican Bicentennial.