Week 8: Signs of Crisis in a Gilded Ag
Revolution: attempt to shape a view of the past that organizes power in the present and making claims on the meaning of those events. With regard to Latin America people say that the revolution never really ended. The video talks about the 3 major components of revolution. There was people like the Diaz’s that benefited from the power and economic advantages that were happening. Another ethos was the revolution of the Serrano- the frontiers- people that lived a free life in the Mexican state and had seen their life transform because of the modernity that had happened. For them, this was freedom, and freedom of authority. The last group was the Agrarian: mostly indigenous people living in central and southern Mexico who’s land was illegally taken from them. The concept of who won the revolution is very difficult to say some people won land and some walked with nothing at all. I found it very interesting to hear what Dawson said about revolution and ho...