Celebrating insurrection : the commemoration and representation of the nineteenth-century Mexican pronunciamiento / edited and with an introduction by Will Fowler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fowler, Will, 1966-

Series:

Mexican experience.

The Mexican experience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revolutions--Mexico--History--19th century.

Revolutions.

Political violence--Mexico--History--19th century.

Political violence.

Political culture--Mexico--History--19th century.

Political culture.

Government, Resistance to--Mexico--History--19th century.

Government, Resistance to.

Legitimacy of governments--Mexico--History--19th century.

Legitimacy of governments.

Collective memory--Mexico.

Collective memory.

Mexico--History--19th century.

Mexico.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The pronunciamiento, a formal list of grievances designed to spark political change in nineteenth-century Mexico, was a problematic yet necessary practice. Although pronunciamientos rarely achieved the goals for which they were undertaken and sometimes resulted in armed rebellion, they were nonetheless both celebrated and commemorated, and the perceptions and representations of pronunciamientos themselves reflected the Mexican people's response to these "revolutions." The third in a series of books examining the pronunciamiento, this collection addresses the complicated legacy of pronunciamientos and their place in Mexican political culture. The essays explore the sacralization and legitimization of these revolts and of their leaders in the nation's history and consider why these celebrations proved ultimately ineffective in consecrating the pronunciamiento as a force for good, rather than one motivated by desires for power, promotion, and plunder. Celebrating Insurrection offers readers interpretations of acts of celebration and commemoration that explain the uneasy adoption of pronunciamientos as Mexico's preferred means of effecting political change during this turbulent period in the nation's history.

Contents:

Introduction : the damned and the venerated : the memory, commemoration, and representation of the nineteenth-century Mexican pronunciamiento

Chronology of main events and pronunciamientos, 1821-1910

The memory and representation of Rafael del Riego's pronunciamiento in constitutional New Spain and within the Iturbide movement, 1820-1821 / Rodrigo Moreno Gutiérrez

The damned man with the venerated plan : the complex legacies of Agustín de Iturbide and the Iguala Plan / Richard A. Warren

Refrescos, iluminaciones, and te deums : celebrating pronunciamientos in Jalisco in 1823 and 1832 / Rosie Doyle

The political life of executed pronunciados : the representation and memory of José Márquez and Joaquín Gárate's 1830 pronunciamiento of San Luis / Kerry McDonald

Memory and manipulation : the lost cause of the Santiago Imán pronunciamiento / Shara Ali

Salvas, cañonazos, y repiques : celebrating the pronunciamiento during the U.S.-Mexican War / Pedro Santoni

Contemporary verdicts on the pronunciamiento during the early national period / Melissa Boyd

The crumbling of a "hero" : Ignacio Comonfort from Ayutla to Tacubaya / Antonia Pi-Suñer Llorens

Porfirio Díaz and the representations of the second of April / Verónica Zárate Toscano

Juan Bustamante's pronunciamiento and the civic speeches that condemned it : San Luis Potosí, 1868-1869 / Flor de María Salazar Mendoza

"As empty a piece of gasconading stuff as I ever read" : the pronunciamiento through foreign eyes / Will Fowler.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781283806138

1283806134

9780803244863

080324486X

OCLC:

818820219