Description
Book SynopsisAdmiral Paul von Hintze arrived in Mexico in the spring of 1911, to serve as Germany’s ambassador to a country in a state of revolution.
Murder and Counterrevolution in Mexico presents Hintze’s eyewitness accounts of these turbulent years.
Trade Review“For the first time we have nearly a day-to-day account of the Victoriano Huerta regime in Mexico City in 1913 and its collapse in 1914. [Hintze’s] diary provides an account of the anxieties, schemes, political conflicts, and diplomatic rivalries that crisscrossed the capital city. Friedrich Schuler’s detective work to find the diary and augment it with records from the German ministry of foreign relations makes this an outstanding resource on the Mexican revolutionary era.”—William H. Beezley, author of Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Editor's Note
Introduction
1. An Eyewitness Learns about Revolutionary Mexico: Transnational Impressions
2. The Path to Madero’s Assassination: An Hour-by-Hour Account
3. Getting to Know the Dictator: Victoriano Huerta Governs
4. Toppling the Mad Tyrant: A Day-by-Day Account of an Ordeal
5. Whisking Huerta into European Exile: Bad Guys Don't Always Die
Notes
Additional Reading
Index
