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SPANISH - AP (Heroes or Villans): Porfirio Díaz (México)

This guide will introduce research methods for historical Spanish figures and their role in society.

Porfirio Díaz - President of Mexico

Porfirio Diaz (1830-1915)

President of Mexico.

Who Was Porfirio Diaz?

Benedict Library Database Resources

Porfirio Diaz Images

José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz

Encyclopedia of World Biography Online, Gale, 1998. Gale In Context: Biography.

Porfirio Diáz

Dictionary of Hispanic Biography, Gale, 1996. Gale In Context: Biography.

Porfirio Díaz

Historic World Leaders, edited by Anne Commire, Gale, 1994. Gale In Context: Biography.

 

Porfirio Diaz

Noll, Arthur Howard. “Porfirio Diaz.” The Sewanee Review, vol. 14, no. 4, 1906, pp. 436–48. JSTOR.

Political Power In Porfirio Diaz's Mexico: A Review and Commentary

Bryan, Anthony T. “Political Power In Porfirio Diaz’s Mexico: A Review and Commentary.” The Historian, vol. 38, no. 4, 1976, pp. 648–68. JSTOR.

Walker, David W. “Porfirian Labor Politics: Working Class Organizations in Mexico City and Porfirio Diaz, 1876-1902.” The Americas, vol. 37, no. 3, 1981, pp. 257–89. JSTOR.

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