Indian Education, Nationalism, and Federalism in Mexico, 1910-1921

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1533-6247|32|3|445-458

ISSN: 0003-1615

Source: The Americas, Vol.32, Iss.3, 1976-01, pp. : 445-458

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Abstract

The years of violence in the Mexican Revolution (1910-1924) have been viewed as a period of upheaval and disruption in which governments toppled, politicians were killed or banished, and the caudillo held sway. However, in such times ideas and institutions often continue to evolve in spite of revolutionary chaos. Mexican education in the second decade of the twentieth century revealed at least two important trends of a peaceful nature: the growth of socially cohesive nationalism and the triumph of the principle of federalism in public education.