"Encompassing wide-ranging and careful studies that rely on Mexican and borderlands political and social history, literature, and socioeconomic change, this volume provides a superb compendium of research on ... the Mexican Revolution....[and] suggests fertile fields of inquiry for future scholarship."

Includes index.

The Mexican Revolution / John Mason Hart -- Decade of disorder: the execution of León Martínez Jr. and Mexican/Anglo race relations in Texas during the first four years of the Mexican Revolution / Nicholas Villanueva Jr. -- "Wire me before shooting": federalism in (in)action: the Texas-Mexico Border during the revolution, 1910-1920 / Don M. Coerver -- The rhetoric and reality of nationalism: Monterrey in the revolution / Miguel Ángel González-Quiroga -- Creating a schizophrenic border: migration and perception, 1920-1925 / Linda B. Hall -- Revolutionary Mexican nationalism and the Mexican immigrant community in Los Angeles during the Great Depression: memory, identity, and survival / Francisco E. Balderrama -- From the Caudillo to Tata Lázaro: the Maximato in perspective, 1928-1934 / Jürgen Buchenau -- Revolution without resonance? Mexico's "fiesta of bullets" and its aftermath in Chiapas, 1910-1940 / Stephen E. Lewis -- Back to centralism, 1920-1940 / Carlos Martínez Assad -- The Mexican Revolution: one century of reflections, 1910-2010 / Thomas Benjamin -- About the contributors.