Carranza's Victory: Power and Reform in State Governments During the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1920

Carranza's Victory recounts the processes by which state governments loyal to President Venustiano Carranza worked to defeat his rivals and consolidate the carrancista regime during the Mexican Revolution.Combining seventeen studies of state governments with larger considerations of national politics, Douglas W.Richmond establishes why Carranza's forces triumphed over his more widely lauded villista and zapatista rivals.Drawn from decades of research on a notoriously fraught period of Mexican history, this book offers a significant reinterpretation of the decade-long civil war that changed Mexico dramatically. Previous accounts overlook Carranza's successes despite his victory over Victoriano Huerta, Pancho Villa, and Emiliano Zapata.Richmond's detailed study describes how individuals in the north, center, and southeast of Mexico supported Carranza and his governors, helping his regime remain in power.All the factions that emerged by 1915 began as regional movements; the carrancistas s