Download or read book Intellectual Precursors of the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1913 written by James D. Cockcroft and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a case study of intellectuals in the Mexican Revolution, with specific reference to four men from San Luis Potosi, known in Mexico as "the cradle of the Revolution." These four men--engineer Camilo Arriaga, journalist Juan Sarabia, school teacher Librado Rivera, and student and lawyer Antonio Diaz Soto y Gama--played leadership roles in the "Precursor Movement," commonly defined as all political precedents of the Revolution of 1910-1917, including the manifestoes, strikes, and armed uprisings dating from these men's founding of San Luis Potosi's Club Liberal "Ponciano Arriaga" in 1900 to th outbreak of the Revolution in 1910.