| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.5

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Book Review

Caribbean and Latin American

John Lear. Workers, Neighbors, and Citizens: The Revolution in Mexico City. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2001. Pp. xii, 441. Cloth $60.00, paper $29.95.

Recent research on the Mexican Revolution has turned to focus on the complex social and cultural history of the city. A leading example of this new urban history, John Lear's book carefully traces the complex transformation of Mexico City around the turn of the twentieth century before focusing on the politics of urban labor. Closely following what he identifies as a formative "cycle of popular urban mobilization" that began with the politicization of Mexico's labor movement during Francisco I. Madero's electoral campaign of 1909 and culminated in the Mexico City general strikes of 1916, Lear argues that "working people [during this time] established many of the possibilities and limits for popular urban participation in postrevolutionary Mexico" (p. 364). . . .

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