Almost all the accounts about the Mexican Revolution treat it as one of the great sociopolitical upheavals of the 20th century, in which masses of Mexican people revolted against a tiny elite of feudal landlords, US imperialism and an ancient military dictator. In this pithy, paradigm-shifting history of Mexico from 1910 to 1920, celebrated historian John Womack Jr. invites readers to reconsider the fascinating and complicated story of modern Mexico's founding moment.