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Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border rescues an understudied episode from the footnotes of history. On September 15, 1891, Garza, a Mexican journalist and political activist, led a band of Mexican rebels out of South Texas and across the Rio Grande, declaring a revolution against Mexico's dictator, Porfirio Diaz. Made up of a broad cross-border alliance of ranchers, merchants, peasants, and disgruntled military men, Garza's revolution was the largest and longest lasting threat to the Diaz regime up to that point. After two years of sporadic fighting, the combined efforts of the U.S. and Mexican armies, Texas Rangers, and local police finally succeeded in crushing the rebellion. Garza went into exile and was killed in Panama in 1895.Elliott Young provides the first full-length analysis of the revolt and its significance, arguing that Garza's rebellion is an important and telling chapter in the formation of the border between Mexico and the United States and in the histories of both countries. Throughout the nineteenth century, the borderlands were a relatively coherent region. Young analyzes archival materials, newspapers, travel accounts, and autobiographies from both countries to show that Garza's revolution was more than just an effort to overthrow Diaz. It was part of the long struggle of borderlands people to maintain their autonomy in the face of two powerful and encroaching nation-states and of Mexicans in particular to protect themselves from being economically and socially displaced by Anglo Americans. By critically examining the different perspectives of military officers, journalists, diplomats, and the Garzistas themselves, Young exposes how nationalism and its preeminent symbol, the border, were manufactured and resisted along the Rio Grande.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

26 juillet 2004

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780822386407

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

catarino garza’s revolution on

the texas-mexico border

American Encounters/Global Interactions a s e r i e s e d i t e d b y g i l b e r t m . j o s e p h a n d e m i l y s . r o s e n b e r g

This series aims to stimulate critical perspectives and fresh interpretive frameworks for scholarship on the history of the imposing global presence of the United States. Its primary concerns include the deployment and contestation of power, the construction and de-construction of cultural and political borders, the ﬂuid

meanings of intercultural encounters, and the complex

interplay between the global and the local. American Encounters seeks to strengthen dialogue and collab-oration between historians of U.S. international rela-tions and area studies specialists. The series encourages scholarship based on multi-archival historical research. At the same time, it sup-ports a recognition of the representational character of

all stories about the past and promotes critical inquiry into issues of subjectivity and narrative. In the process, American Encounters strives to understand the con-text in which meanings related to nations, cultures, and political economy are continually produced, chal-

lenged, and reshaped.

Catarino Garza’s Revolution on

the Texas-Mexico Border

e l l i o t t y o u n g

d u k e u n i v e r s i t y p r e s s

Durham & London

2004

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper$

Typesetting. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication

Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

Para Isabel, Zulema, y Perdido

Y la memoria de mi maestro, amigo,

y compañero Michael F. Jiménez

History is the fruit of power, but power

itself is never so transparent that its analysis

becomes superﬂuous. The ultimate mark of

power may be its invisibility; the ultimate

challenge, the exposition of its roots.

—Michel-Rolph Trouillot,

Silencing the Past

contents

Maps and Figures, xi

Acknowledgments, xiii

Introduction, 1

1. The Making of a Revolutionary, 25

2. Resisting the Pax Porﬁriana, 57

3. Revolution and Repression, 98

4. Booms and Busts, 131

5. The Garzistas, 155

6. The Ideological Battle, 191

7. Colonizing the Lower Rio Grande Valley, 209

8. Exile, Death, and Resurrection in the Caribbean, 268

Epilogue, 303

Notes, 317

Bibliography, 385

Index, 397

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