Stormy Passage
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Stormy Passage

Mexico from Colony to Republic, 1750-1850

  1. 359 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Stormy Passage

Mexico from Colony to Republic, 1750-1850

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Colonial Twilight
  5. Introduction
  6. Society in New Spain
  7. The Economy of New Spain in the Age of Silver
  8. Signs of Stress, Efforts at Reform
  9. The Tempest Arrives: Independence
  10. The Storm Breaks
  11. Who Were the Rebels?
  12. The Consummation of Independence
  13. Inventing Independent Mexico
  14. From Transient Empire to Fragile Republic, 1821–1832
  15. The Age of Santa Anna
  16. Elusive Prosperity
  17. Conclusion
  18. For Further Reading
  19. Index