Independent Mexico : the pronunciamiento in the age of Santa Anna, 1821-1858 / Will Fowler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fowler, Will, 1966- author.

Series:

Mexican experience.

Mexican Experience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Government, Resistance to.

Coups d'état--Mexico--History--19th century.

Coups d'état.

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

Revolutions.

Mexico--Politics and government--1821-1861.

Mexico.

Mexico--History--1821-1861.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (394 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Nebraska ; London, [England] : University of Nebraska Press, 2016.

Summary:

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 pronunciamientos 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 fourth 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 ensuing French Intervention (1862-67). Given the frequency and importance of the pronunciamiento, this book is also a concise political history of independent Mexico.

Contents:

"Soft" coups, occupations, and "gestures of rebellion": the pronunciamiento, past and present interpretations

The origins of Mexico's mimetic insurrectionism: the foundational pronunciamientos of Cabezas de San Juan and Iguala, 1820-1821

The voice of the provinces: the insurrectional contagion of Mexico's first pronunciamientos, 1821-1831

When the pronunciamiento went viral: the popularization of the pronunciamiento, 1832-1842

From forceful negotiation to civil war: the pronunciamientos, coups d'etat, and revolutions of the mid-nineteenth century, 1843-1858

Conclusion: mimetic insurrectionism, the pronunciamiento, and independent Mexico.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780803284678

0803284675

9780803284692

0803284691

OCLC:

929857833