Title: Soberanía y excepcionalidad
Description: New interpretation of Yucatan's integration into Mexican nation-state, focusing on episode in which dissidents in local congress initiated movement to declare independence from Mexico. Seeks to determine reasons for movement's failure and continuing presence of Yucatan in union by analyzing underlying conceptions of sovereignty and exceptionality at play, and other motives for secession effort.
Subjects: Politics and government, History, Sovereignty
Places: Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, Central America
Time periods: 19th century, 1821-1861