The Sonoran Dynasty in Mexico: Revolution, Refo. Buchenau Paperback**

The Sonoran Dynasty in MexicoRevolution, Reform, and Repression\nAuthor(s): Jrgen Buchenau\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9781496236142, 978-1496236142\nSynopsis\nHonorable Mention for the 2024 Alfred B. Thomas Book Award\n\n Two generals from the northwestern state of Sonora, lvaro Obregn and Plutarco Elas Calles, dominated Mexico between 1920 and 1934, having risen to prominence in the course of the Mexican Revolution. Torn between popular demands for ending the privileges of wealthy foreign investors and opposition by a hawkish [url] administration and enemies at home, the two generals and their allies from their home state mixed radical rhetoric with the accommodation of entrenched interests.\n\n In The Sonoran Dynasty in Mexico Jrgen Buchenau tells the story of this ruling group, which rejected the Indigenous and Catholic past during the decades of the revolution and aimed to reinvent Me.