What are the greatest books and resources about the Mexican Revolution/Civil War of 1910-20?

by Huey_Tlatoani

My knowledge of the civil war/revolution in my country comes from two major sources:

The first is from the Mexican education system which is heavily biased in favor of the Carrancistas and takes a very bourgeois, secular, liberal view of the era which privileges the worldview of the élites in the capital against the North and South, landowners and peasants, Catholics and leftists. The second is from my own family, especially my grandfather who studied history, whose own grandfather died in the early years of the war and whose uncle died fighting against the communists in Spain, his opinion is that the United States saw that the country was thriving during the Porfiriato and did not like the idea of having a competitor to the south along with the British Empire to the north, and that also this was the era of so called progressive imperialism and took the view that Mexico was a backward, Catholic, feudal and illiberal nation that had to be transformed into something else more to their liking, closer to the values of the Northern European Protestant world that the United States held, so they supported unrest and revolution to depose governments that were not progressive enough, first against the great Porfirio Díaz by supporting the Plan de San Luis and Madero, and then when he was deposed because the country did not want such a leftist and replaced by Victoriano Huerta, the United States openly fought against him and had him deposed before arresting him and holding him until he died, before finally installing their puppet Venustiano Carranza and helping him to defeat the final patriotic faction in the war, the Felicistas, which allowed for many decades of rule by the pro-US, bourgeois liberal PRI.

Obviously things are very nuanced and confusing in this conflict, though I am sympathetic to the idea that the United States interferes in other nations not only to serve their financial and military interests but to impose liberal and bourgeois values, because I see this with my own eyes as a dual citizen of the US and Mexico. I am looking for great sources to learn as much as possible about this era, thank you!

voyeur324

/u/ainrialai has previously offered suggestions on this topic, scroll down to the foot of the page at the link.