Independent Mexico
Subtitle: The Pronunciamiento in the Age of Santa Anna, 1821-1858
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Jan 01, 2016
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780803225398
Description: In mid-nineteenth-century Mexico, garrisons, town councils, state legislatures, and an array of political actors, groups, and communities began aggressively petitioning the government at both local and national levels to address their grievances. Often viewed as a revolt or a coup d'état, these pronunciamientos were actually a complex form of insurrectionary action that relied first on the proclamation and circulation of a plan that listed the petitioners' demands and then on endorsement by copycat pronounciamientos that forced the authorities, be they national or regional, to the negotiating table. In Independent Mexico, Will Fowler provides a comprehensive overview of the pronunciamiento practice following the Plan of Iguala. This forth and final installment in, and culmination of, a larger exploration of the pronunciamiento highlights the extent to which this model of political contestation evolved. The result of more than three decades of pronunciamiento politics was the bloody Civil War of the Reforma (1858-60) and the ensuring French Intervention (1862-67). Given the frequency and importance of the pronunciamiento, this book is also a concise political history of independent Mexico. -- from back cover.
Notes: Source title: Independent Mexico: The Pronunciamiento in the Age of Santa Anna, 1821-1858 (The Mexican Experience)