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title	:	The Jurez Myth in Mexico
author	:	Weeks, Charles A.
publisher	:	University of Alabama Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0817302859
print isbn13	:	9780817302856
ebook isbn13	:	9780585261478
language	:	English
subject	Jurez, Benito,--1806-1872 , Presidents--Mexico--Biography, Mexico--History--European Intervention, 1861-1867--Historiography, Mexico--History--1821-1861--Historiography. , Mexico--History--1867-1910--Historiography.
publication date	:	1987
lcc	:	F1233.J9W44 1987eb
ddc	:	972/.07/0924
subject	:	Jurez, Benito,--1806-1872 , Presidents--Mexico--Biography, Mexico--History--European Intervention, 1861-1867--Historiography, Mexico--History--1821-1861--Historiography. , Mexico--History--1867-1910--Historiography.

Page iii The Jurez Myth in Mexico Charles A. Weeks THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS

Page iv Copyright 1987 by The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Publication of this book was made possible, in part, by financial assistance from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Weeks, Charles A., 1937 The Jurez myth in Mexico Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Jurez, Benito, 18061872. 2. MexicoHistory 18211861Historiography. 3. MexicoHistoryEuropean intervention, 18611867Historiography. 4. Mexico History18671910Historiography. 5. Mexico PresidentsBiography. I. Title. F1233.J9W44 1987 972'.07'0924 85-16543 ISBN 0-8173-0285-9

Page v Contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix 1. Mexicans and Their Jurez 1 2. Triumph of the Republic 12 3. Jurez and the Politics of the Porfiriato 26 4. The Centennial1906 43 5. The Bulnes Polemic 54 6. Jurez, Symbol in a Revolution 71 7. Mexican Painters and Jurez 86 8. Mexican Governments and Jurez after 1920 100 9. Symbol for Dissent 120 10. Of Mexicans and Myth 135 Notes 141 Bibliography 167 Index 197

Page vii Illustrations The Jurez Hemiciclo, Mexico City. 2 Benito Jurez, from a lithograph by Fernando Lara. 3 "Luck should decide, but without tricks," cartoon from ElPadre Cobos, June 1871. 21 "Reelection," cartoon in the pro-Daz El Padre Cobos, June 1871. 22 "Rats at the Tomb of Jurez," from El Hijo del Ahuizote, July 24, 1887. 39 "A Painting Lesson," from El Hijo del Ahuizote, July 24, 1887. 40 "A Portrait Lesson," from El Hijo del Ahuizote, July 31, 1887. 41 El Colmillo Pblico, September 25, 1904, describes student reaction to El verdadero Jurez. 64 "Thus history is written, when it is written by Bulnes," commented El Colmillo Pblico on September 18, 1904. 66 President Daz inaugurates the national monument to Jurez, the Hemiciclo, September 18, 1910. 72 "Preparations for the Liberal Congress of San Luis Potos," from El Hijo del Ahuizote, February 10, 1901. 74 "Over the Constitution, no one," says Jurez in the context of ten tragic days that saw the fall of Madero and the advent of Huerta, from El Ahuizote, February 1, 1913. 79

Page viii Portrait of Jurez by Jos Escudero y Espronceda, painted in March 1872. National Palace, Mexico City. 87 Santa Anna, the Clerical Dictatorship, and the Reform of1857, by Diego Rivera. National Palace, Mexico City. 90 Sunday Dreams in the Alameda, by Diego Rivera. Hotel del Prado, Mexico City. 92

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