The Mexican Revolution in Chicago: Immigration Politics from the Early Twentieth Century to the Cold War

by John H Flores

Book Overview

Few realize that long before the political activism of the 1960s, there existed a broad social movement in the United States spearheaded by a generation of Mexican immigrants inspired by the revolution in their homeland. Many revolutionaries eschewed U.S. citizenship and have thus far been lost to history, though they have much to teach us about the increasingly international world of today. John H. Flores follows this revolutionary generation of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252041801
• ISBN13: 9780252041808
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"