The Agrarian Policies and Ideas of the Revolutionary Mexican Factions Led by Emiliano Zapata, Pancho Villa, and Venustiano Carranza

In 1929 Frank Tannenbaum published his memorable book The Mexican Agrarian Revolution, in which he stated that Mexico's Revolution from 1910 to 1920 had an essentially agrarian character. It constituted, in his opinion, a revolution of hundreds if not thousands of communities demanding the return of lands that had been taken from them as well as the reinstatement of traditional rights they had lost throughout the colonial period, the nineteenth century, and above all during the dictatorship of Porftrio Díaz.