The Mexican Revolution: Porfirians, Liberals and PeasantsThe Mexican Revolution was like no other: it was fueled by no vanguard party, no coherent ideology, no international ambitions; and ultimately it served to reinforce rather than to subvert many of the features of the old regime it overthrew. Alan Knight argues that a populist uprising brought about the fall of longtime dictator Porfirio Daz in 1910. It was one of those relatively rare episodes in history when the mass of the people profoundly