Porfirio Diaz

<p>The fall of Porfirio Diaz has traditionally been presented as a watershed between old and new: an old style repressive and conservative government, and the more democratic and representative system that flowered in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. Now this view is being challenged by a new generation of historians, who point out that Diaz originally rose to power in alliance with anti-conservative forces and was a modernising force as well as a dictator. Drawing together the threads of this revisionist reading of the <i>Porfiriato</i>, Garner reassesses a political career that spanned more than forty years, and examines the claims that post-revolutionary Mexico was not the break with the past that the revolutionary inheritors claimed.</p> Chapter 1 Porfirio Díaz and Mexican Historiography: Porfirismo, Anti-Porfirismo and Neo-Porfirismo; Chapter 2 The Foundations of Porfirian Mexico: Liberalism, Authoritarianism and the Patriotic Struggle, 1855–67; Chapter 3 The Long Road to the Presidency, 1867–76; Chapter 4 Pragmatic Liberalism, 1876–84; Chapter 5 The Consolidation of Power: Patriarchal Liberalism, 1884–1911; Chapter 6 Diplomacy, Foreign Policy and International Relations, 1876–1911; Chapter 7 Paying for Order and Progress: Economic Development, 1876–1911; Chapter 8 The Price of Order and Progress: The Decline and Fall of the Díaz Regime, 1900–11;