Viva Mexico! Viva la independencia!
Subtitle: celebrations of September 16
By: edited by William H. Beezley, David E. Lorey.
Contributors: Beezley, William H.; Lorey, David E.
Series: Latin American silhouettes : studies in history and culture; Latin American silhouettes.
Publisher: SR Books; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Wilmington, Del
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Independence Day (Mexico); Mexico -- Social life and customs.; Mexico -- History -- Wars of Independence, 1810-1821 -- Centennial celebrations, etc.; Mexico -- History -- 19th century.; Mexico -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Images of independence in the nineteenth century : the Grito de Dolores history and myth / Isabel Fernández Tejedo and Carmen Nava Nava; title: The Junta Patriótica and the celebration of independence in Mexico City, 1825-1855 / Michael Costeloe; title: The first independence celebrations in San Luis Potosí, 1824-1847 / Sergio Alejandro Cañedo Gamboa; title: San Angel as the site of national festivals in the 1860s / Verónica Zárate Toscano; title: Conservatives contest the meaning of independence, 1846-1855 / Javier Rodríguez Piña; title: New celebrations of independence : Puebla (1869) and Mexico City (1883) / William B. Beezley; title: The capital commemorates independence at the Turn of the Century / Nora Pérez-Rayón E.; title: 1910 Mexico City / Mauricio Tenorio Trillo; title: The 1921 Centennial Celebration of Mexico's independence / Elaine C. Lacy; title: Postrevolutionary contexts for Independence Day : the "problem" of order and the invention of Revolution Day, 1920s-1940s / David E. Lorey.