Excited City. Emotions and Revolution in Mexico City, 1912

Abstract

This article analyzes the context and emotional experience of the inhabitants of Mexico City facing the Zapatista rebellion against the government of President Francisco I. Madero in 1912. For this purpose the press discourses on the meaning and alleged dangers of a possible invasion of the capital by the rebel forces, as well as some episodes of the response of the people to form volunteer’s defense corps called by the authorities are analyzed. Its content —summarized here for dissemination— is a preview of an ongoing and larger research.