Stormy Passage
Mexico from Colony to Republic, 1750–1850- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2022
Summary
In this engaging book, Eric Van Young traces the political, economic, and social development of Mexico through the crucial one hundred years of its remarkable transition from a relatively prosperous Spanish colony to a violently unstable republic marked by economic stagnation, political confrontation, and burgeoning efforts at modernization. Featuring primary sources from figures of the period, Van Young discusses the political instability of the period—internal warfare, military uprisings, intermittent dictatorships, sharp conflicts among political groupings—and attributes them to a belief by political actors in the fundamental lack of legitimacy in central government institutions after the sweeping away of the Bourbon imperial structure and its replacement first with a very short-lived Mexican empire followed by a series of increasingly authoritarian aspirational republican constitutions.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2022
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-4422-0901-5
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-4422-0903-9
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 348
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Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Introduction No access
- Society in New Spain No access
- The Economy of New Spain in the Age of Silver No access
- Signs of Stress, Efforts at Reform No access
- The Storm Breaks No access
- Who Were the Rebels? No access
- The Consummation of Independence No access
- From Transient Empire to Fragile Republic, 1821–1832 No access
- The Age of Santa Anna No access
- Elusive Prosperity No access
- Conclusion No access Pages 309 - 316
- For Further Reading No access Pages 317 - 332
- Index No access Pages 333 - 348





