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books:

War Scare on the Rio Grande: Robert Runyon's Photographs of the Border Conflict, 1913-1916 (Tsha Publication ...

1 review
Frank N. Samponaro, Paul J. Vanderwood, ...

Texas State Historical Association, 1994

Very Interesting and Atractive Work
I must admit my bias right up front. The authors previous book "Border Fury" combining a photo study of the Revolution itself with a history of the postcard industry, drew heavily on my collection of period postcards. That one was excellently done by the UNM Press and so is this one. This covers the many phases of the Mexican Revolution in the northeast around Matamoros, right across the Rio ...

Juan Soldado: Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint (American Encounters/Global Interactions)

2 reviews
Paul J. Vanderwood

Duke University Press, 2004

Belief Matters
Vanderwood's book provides a detailed, crackling narrative of a brutal murder-rape in Tijuana in 1938, but also an anatomy of how that famous border-town grew and experienced the agonies of social change during the early twentieth century. The young Mexican soldier executed for the crime is at the center of the story, of course, as are the processes of how he came to be venerated as a sort of ...

Disorder and Progress: Bandits, Police, and Mexican Development (Latin American Silhouettes)
Paul J. Vanderwood

SR Books, 1992

This reissue of Professor Vanderwood's groundbreaking study-available again for the first time in a decade-examines bandits, police, and Mexican politics as a whole, showing how different groups used the agents of order and disorder to serve their interests. Originally published in 1981, Disorder and Progress was revised and updated in 1992. Added to the enlarged 1992 edition and included here in this reissue are the entirely new introduction, ...

Juan N. Cortina and the Struggle for Justice in Texas

1 review
Carlos Larralde, Jose Rodolfo Jacobo

Kendall Hunt Pub Co, 2000

Juan N. Cortina
Juan Nepomuceno Cortina was born on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande in 1824. Known as "The Red Robber of the Rio Grande", the author recasts Cortina as a protector of Tejanos from the abuses of the Texas Rangers in the years following the United States - Mexico War of 1846-48. In 1848 he established La Raza Unida, originally a secret organization. He organized and armed the local Mexican ...

Juarez (Wisconsin / Warner Bros. Screenplays)

University of Wisconsin Press, 1983

Juárez was Warner Brothers' cinematic attempt to answer the major international question of the 1930s: would democracy or dictatorship prevail? Eager to further the foreign policy objectives of its friend Franklin Delano Roosevelt and equally willing to add to its prestigious and profitable biography series, the stuido set a record high budget and assembled special film stock, extensive scholarly research, a loose time schedule, a renowned ...

Desorden Y Progresso: Bandidos, Policias Y Desarrollo Mexicano
Paul J. Vanderwood

Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 1986

Spanish edition of Vanderwood's study which shows how police, criminals and politicans in Mexico use order and disorder to their seperate advantages.