Ryan M Alexander
Biographic Data
| ID | 3765024 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ryan M Alexander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ryan M |
| FAMILY NAME | Alexander |
| SIGNATURE | ALEXANDER R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY Plattsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Fever of War: Epidemic Typhus and Public Health in Revolutionary Mexico City, 1915-1917
This article examines Mexico City's typhus epidemic of 1915-16 and makes three central claims. First, the federal response to the outbreak, while laudable in light of the grim circumstances, was disjointed and excessively bureaucratic. Second, the epidemic drew out long-standing stereotypes of poor indigenous populations, leading people to make misguided linkages between the high incidence of typhus within those populations and their supposed mor…
The Spanish Flu and the Sanitary Dictatorship: Mexico's Response to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
The influenza of 1918, the disastrous global pandemic known to many as the Spanish Flu, could not have come at a worse time for Mexico. The nation was eight years into its decade-long revolutionary struggle, a conflict that claimed the lives of well over a million citizens. Of those lost, several hundred thousand perished due to the influenza alone, usually from secondary complications such as pneumonia or bronchitis. Along with exposure, famine,…
Historia breve de la Revolución Mexicana
Felipe Arturo Ávila Espinosa and Pedro Salmerón Sanginés have produced a workmanlike survey of Mexico's revolutionary decade from 1910 to 1920. The authors' ambition, rather than simply to produce another general narrative, is to respond to what they regard as an ahistorical strain of historiography in which scholars have misinterpreted the revolution because of what came in its wake. As the authors explain, scholars cannot blame the Zapatistas f…
Backwater Bureaucrat to Revolutionary Myth-Maker: Bernardo M. de León, Caciquismo, and Memory in Nayarit, 1920–1990
This article examines two episodes in the career of Bernardo M. de León, an agrarian reform leader and federal congressman from the state of Nayarit. During the first period, from 1920 to 1940, De León emerged as a local cacique responsible for both progressive politics and repressive maneuvers, particularly during the 1930s land reform effort undertaken by the administration of Lázaro Cárdenas. During the second period, from 1970 to 1990, he fun…
Mexico's “Misnomered Bear Woman”: Science and Spectacle in the Sideshows of Nineteenth‐Century Europe
Twas a big black ape from over the sea, And she sat on a branch of a walnut tree, And grinn'd and sputter'd and gazed at me As I stood on the grass below: She sputter'd and grinn'd in a fearsome way, And put out her tongue, which was long and grey, And it hiss'd and curl'd and seem'd to say “Why do you stare at me so?” Who could help staring? I, at least, Had never set eyes on so strange a beast— Such a monstrous birth of the teeming East, Such a…
Mexico's “Misnomered Bear Woman”: Science and Spectacle in the Sideshows of Nineteenth‐Century Europe
Twas a big black ape from over the sea, And she sat on a branch of a walnut tree, And grinn'd and sputter'd and gazed at me As I stood on the grass below: She sputter'd and grinn'd in a fearsome way, And put out her tongue, which was long and grey, And it hiss'd and curl'd and seem'd to say “Why do you stare at me so?” Who could help staring? I, at least, Had never set eyes on so strange a beast— Such a monstrous birth of the teeming East, Such a…
Backwater Bureaucrat to Revolutionary Myth-Maker: Bernardo M. de León, Caciquismo, and Memory in Nayarit, 1920–1990
This article examines two episodes in the career of Bernardo M. de León, an agrarian reform leader and federal congressman from the state of Nayarit. During the first period, from 1920 to 1940, De León emerged as a local cacique responsible for both progressive politics and repressive maneuvers, particularly during the 1930s land reform effort undertaken by the administration of Lázaro Cárdenas. During the second period, from 1970 to 1990, he fun…
Mexico's “Misnomered Bear Woman”: Science and Spectacle in the Sideshows of Nineteenth‐Century Europe
Twas a big black ape from over the sea, And she sat on a branch of a walnut tree, And grinn'd and sputter'd and gazed at me As I stood on the grass below: She sputter'd and grinn'd in a fearsome way, And put out her tongue, which was long and grey, And it hiss'd and curl'd and seem'd to say “Why do you stare at me so?” Who could help staring? I, at least, Had never set eyes on so strange a beast— Such a monstrous birth of the teeming East, Such a…
Historia breve de la Revolución Mexicana
Felipe Arturo Ávila Espinosa and Pedro Salmerón Sanginés have produced a workmanlike survey of Mexico's revolutionary decade from 1910 to 1920. The authors' ambition, rather than simply to produce another general narrative, is to respond to what they regard as an ahistorical strain of historiography in which scholars have misinterpreted the revolution because of what came in its wake. As the authors explain, scholars cannot blame the Zapatistas f…
The Spanish Flu and the Sanitary Dictatorship: Mexico's Response to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
The influenza of 1918, the disastrous global pandemic known to many as the Spanish Flu, could not have come at a worse time for Mexico. The nation was eight years into its decade-long revolutionary struggle, a conflict that claimed the lives of well over a million citizens. Of those lost, several hundred thousand perished due to the influenza alone, usually from secondary complications such as pneumonia or bronchitis. Along with exposure, famine,…
The Fever of War: Epidemic Typhus and Public Health in Revolutionary Mexico City, 1915-1917
This article examines Mexico City's typhus epidemic of 1915-16 and makes three central claims. First, the federal response to the outbreak, while laudable in light of the grim circumstances, was disjointed and excessively bureaucratic. Second, the epidemic drew out long-standing stereotypes of poor indigenous populations, leading people to make misguided linkages between the high incidence of typhus within those populations and their supposed mor…
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