The Spirit of Hidalgo: the Mexican Revolution in Coahuila.(Book Review) From: Canadian Journal of History | Date: August 1, 2003| Author: Anna, Timothy E. | COPYRIGHT 2003 Canadian Journal of History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

by Suzanne B. Pasztor. Calgary: University of Calgary Press and Michigan State University Press, 2002. xvi, 224 pp. $49.95 US (cloth).

Let it be noted at the outset that this book has nothing to do with Miguel Hidalgo or the first revolt for Mexican independence that he initiated in 1810. The reference is merely to a lingering "spirit" of independence a century later in Mexico's third largest state, Coahuila, and its long-term aspiration to local autonomy. The adoption o...