| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.1

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Book Review

The Spirit of Hidalgo: The Mexican Revolution in Coahuila. By Suzanne B. Pasztor. (Calgary: University of Calgary Press and East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2002. xvi + 224 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95.)

This excellent study, written by a specialist in Mexican history at the University of the Pacific, provides a detailed history of the state of Coahuila from the late-nineteenth century to 1920. The book is part of the new historiography of the Mexican Revolution in that it stresses Coahuila's position on the northern frontier as being crucial to its experience during the war-torn era. Unlike the peasant revolt of agricultural southern Mexico, Coahuila's revolution took place in a state that was rapidly modernizing and had a long tradition of defending local autonomy. Therefore, the revolution in Coahuila represented a popular reaction to economic dislocations, as well as political resistance to Porfirian centralization.

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