Porfirio Díaz made a career in public life at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Porfirio Díaz as President of Mexico (1830–1915).
Porfirio Díaz was born in 1830. His recorded nationality is Mexico.
The nineteenth century professionalised nearly everything: salaried posts, formal training, and audiences large enough to sustain a career.
The record gives his occupations as politician and military personnel.
Power is judged twice: once by contemporaries who felt it, and again by historians who did not.
The honours are a fair index of how the work was received - Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (1906), Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary (1901) and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus (1893).
Working from Mexico shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Porfirio Díaz died in 1915 at the age of 85. The work outlived the arguments around it.
Achievements
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath — 1906
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary — 1901
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus — 1893
- Worked as politician and military personnel
