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The Mexican Revolution probably affected Texas more than any other state. As the Revolution intensified, Texans responded with increased efforts to shape the Mexican policies of the Woodrow Wilson administration. Some became directly involved in the Revolution and the U.S. reaction to it, but most Texans sought to influence American policy toward Mexico through pressure on their political leaders in Austin and Washington. Based primarily on research in the private and public papers of leading state and national political figures, archival sources such as the Congressional Record and the Department of State's decimal file, major newspapers of the era, and respected works, this study details the successes and failures that Texans experienced in their endeavors to influence Wilson's Mexican policies.

This thesis examines the imagery of Jose Guadalupe Posada in the context of the Mexican Revolution with particular reference to the corrido as a major manifestation of Mexican culture. Particular emphasis is given to three corridos: "La Cucaracha," "La Valentina," and "La Adelita." An investigation of Posada's background, style, and technique places him in the tradition of Mexican art. Using examples of works by Posada which illustrate Mexico's history, culture, and politics, this thesis puts Posada into the climate of the Porfiriato and Revolutionary Mexico. After a brief introduction to the corrido, a stylistic analysis of each image, research into the background of the song and subject matter, and comments on the music draw together the concepts of image, music, and text.

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The present dissertation offers a critical examination of the place accorded to Latin American states in the English School account of the expansion of international society. It pursues two aims. First, the study contributes to understanding the nature and scope of international order, and its historical transformation over the course of the 'long nineteenth century'. Because of the profound impact that European colonization had on the region, the English School has conventionally treated the entry of Latin American states into international society as an unproblematic historical fact achieved with diplomatic recognition in the 1820s. The crucial cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, however, indicate that more attention needs to the paid to the hierarchical nature of the international order. The central argument of this historical-comparative study posits that the three Latin American states were recognized diplomatically, but they were not regarded as fully-fledged members of the community of 'civilized' states. Second, the dissertation examines the implications of hierarchy in international politics. Building on a critique of the legal-formalist conception of 'standing' in English School theorizing, three ideal-typical dimensions of international stratification are identified: the distribution of material capabilities (stature), the function states perform in international society (role), and estimations of honour and prestige (status) among states. The interpretative framework sheds light on how agents understand international society, and the way in which they deal with its hierarchical nature. The study analyzes how Latin American elites perceived the standing of their state, and how these perceptions shaped politics through their corresponding 'logics of social action'. The study finds that nineteenth-century elites in Argentina, Mexico, and Brazil conceived of the standing of their states predominantly in terms of status, and demonstrates how these perceptions informed politics.

The purpose of this study is to provide a guide for the instruction of a trumpet mariachi performance ensemble in a music curriculum. The fulfillment of this purpose is dependent upon the data supplied in answer to the sub problems: (1) What socio-cultural information provides authentic trumpet mariachi music; (2) What trumpet mariachi literature illustrates the repertoire and style; (3) What instructional source materials may be developed such that Mexican American and non-Mexican American instructors build a competency in repertoire and style; (4) How could this guide be evaluated in its functional design for a music curriculum? The data collected for use in this study has been presented in three major categories: (1) the history and milieu in which the trumpet, mariachi crystalized; (2) the repertoire--its history and function in Mexican society and the transcriptions of types demonstrating the musical structure; and (3) the technical information relative to the instruction of the particular mariachi instruments. An evaluative instrument has been supplied in an attempt to establish the validity of the information and examples provided in this practicum. The validity of the research seems to rest on its authenticity and its serviceability. The findings of this study are stated as assertions based on the literature in general and the repertorial types specifically included. These assertions are aligned with the organization of the data as it has been reported in the body of the dissertation. The conclusions are stated in a similar manner as assertions pertinent to cross referenced statements which may be implied as concepts drawn from the reported data and the literature observed in this study.

Orientador: Jose Alves de Freitas Neto / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Cienciaa Medicas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T03:03:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silva_RafaelPavanide_M.pdf: 769239 bytes, checksum: 224154f48b9eb63c28f91f4c4eb328a5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: O presente texto tem por objetivo apresentar e problematizar as transformações ocorridas no discurso político de Lázaro Cárdenas sobre a Revolução Mexicana, sobretudo no período que vai de 1934 a 1940. Por este caminho, busquei questionar os resultados políticos de tais mutações, principalmente no que se refere às suas possibilidades enquanto legitimadoras do poder presidencial e do novo governo estabelecido, tendo em vista que as situações nas quais se produziram tais alterações foram os sucessivos conflitos enfrentados pelo governo: em 1935-36, a disputa com Plutarco E. Calles, em 1938, a nacionalização do petróleo e, a partir daí, as acaloradas contendas políticas rumo às eleições para renovação do governo federal em 1940, como a rebelião cedillista ainda em 1938. Estes conflitos permitem destacar a importância da reconstituição do passado revolucionário como prática essencial da política cardenista e do próprio discurso como imprescindível na constituição da prática política. Ao considerar que os usos da Revolução constituíram um traço marcante dos discursos do general mexicano, o presente estudo busca o entendimento das propostas políticas, das disputas ideológicas e das relações de poder no período por meio dos conflitos em torno da construção de um simbolismo revolucionário. Pretende-se, com isso, tanto ressaltar a especificidade da história mexicana quanto os limites das políticas de Cárdenas frente às abordagens historiográficas que tendem a homogeneizar os regimes políticos da Ibero-América dos anos 1930 e 1940. Assim, ao refletir sobre as transformações do discurso de Cárdenas, busco também um debate específico com parte da bibliografia do tema, pois, à medida que se destaca a constante necessidade de adaptação da retórica cardenista, negociando com importantes interlocutores, é possível matizar a historiografia revisionista que, em uma leitura teleológica, atribuiu o mesmo poder e autoritarismo do estado mexicano dos anos 1960 ao dos anos 1930. Deste modo, ao propor o cardenismo como um fenômeno a ser pensado dentro dos marcos estabelecidos pela Revolução Mexicana, apresenta-se uma crítica à leitura do populismo cardenista, que produziu a idéia de um presidente simplesmente manipulador com um discurso antitético em relação a uma suposta realidade política, assim como ignorou especificidades do período buscando comparações com diferentes lideranças latino-americanas / Abstract: This work intends to present and to render problematic about the changing of Lázaro Cárdenas thought about Mexican Revolution, especially on the period of 1934 until 1940. Thus, I wanted to argue the political results and its consequences, mainly whether these results legitimated his president power and the new government established from that time on, because the circumstances in which those changes appeared were througout the successives conflicts that his government had to face: in 1935-36, there was the dispute with Plutarco E. Calles; in 1938, there was the petroleoum nationalization and, furthermore, the angy political fights marching on coming election for government renovation in 1940, as well the cedillista rebelion in 1938. These conflicts permit us to put on relief how important is to rebuild the revolutionary past as an essencial exercise of cardenista politic and as a vital part of political frame. Considering that the Revolution way of using composed an important aspect of Cárdenas speech, this work aims to understand political propositions, ideological disputes and power relationships on this time, observing the revolutionary simbolism construction. Therefore, the aim is detach the specificity of Mexican history, as well the politic of Cárdenas, even so the historiography has been broaching it like something homogeneous to other political governments in Iberian America among 1930 and 1940 years. Thus, to think about Cárdenas behaviour, I wanted to argue particularly with this bibliography, because there is a need to adapt his rethoric and understand that the revisionist historiography must be contested, given they made a teleological interpretation when imputed to Cárdenas the same power and authoritarianism that happened in Mexico on 1960's and 1930's. Therefore, my propose was to think the cardenismo as a peculiarity extremely limited within the frameworks established by the Mexican Revolution, and to present a criticism of the interpretation that see Cárdenas like a handler simply, who had a anti-ethical speech for an alleged political reality, ignoring the particularities of time, looking for comparisons with various Latin American leaders / Mestrado / Politica, Memoria e Cidade / Mestre em História

This thesis studies the rhetoric of the Zapatista Revolution and social movement through the analysis of Zapatista messages using the method of cluster criticism. It explores changes in the rhetoric of confrontation and the rhetoric of peace used by the Zapatistas to further their cause during the last ten years of the revolution.

The purpose of this thesis is to describe and then to compare common descriptive characteristics (uniformities) evident within three historical events: the Paris Commune of 1871, the Zapatista Movement of the Mexican Revolution between 1910 and 1919, and the Spartacist Rebellion of 1919. One such uniformity is the fact that all three are abortive social revolutions.