A life together : Lucas Alamán and Mexico, 1792-1853 / Eric Van Young.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Van Young, Eric Julian, 1946- author.

Series:

• Yale scholarship online.
• Yale scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Intellectuals--Mexico--Biography.
• Statesmen--Mexico--Biography.
• Alaman, Lucas, 1792-185.
• Mexico.

Genre:

• Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (864 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Lucas Alamán (1792-1853) was the most prominent statesman, political economist, and historian in nineteenth-century Mexico. Alamán served as the central ministerial figure in the national government on three occasions, founded the Conservative Party in the wake of the Mexican-American War, and authored the greatest historical work on Mexico's struggle for independence. Though Mexican historiography has painted Alamǹ as a reactionary, Van Young's balanced portrait draws upon fifteen years of research to argue that Alamán was a conservative moderniser, whose north star was always economic development and political stability as the means of drawing Mexico into the North Atlantic world of advanced nation-states.

Contents:

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I Youth
• 1 • An Old and Distinguished Family
• 2 • A Silver-Plated Youth (1792–1815)
• 3 • Years of Pilgrimage, First Steps in Politics, and a Betrothal (1816–1823)
• Part II The Statesman Emerges
• 4 • The Spanish Cortes and a Final Sojourn in Paris (1821–1822)
• 5 • Brothers
• Part III Into the Maelstrom (1823–1825)
• 6 • The Meanings of Anarchy
• 7 • Domestic Tranquility
• 8 • Diplomacy
• 9 • The Poinsett Saga
• Part IV Making Money
• 10 • Shafted The United Mexican Mining Association (1824–1830)
• 11 • Managing the Feudal Remnant Alamán and the Duque (1824–1853)
• Part V High Tide of Power, Fall, and Internal Exile(1830–1834)
• 12 • An Ordered and Prosperous Republic
• 13 • Texas
• 14 • The Banco de Avío
• 15 • The War of the South and the Death of Guerrero
• 16 • The Reckoning
• 17 • Weaving Disaster Cocolapan (1836–1843)
• Part VI Alamánat Midlife, Brief Return to Power, Last Days(1835–1853)
• 18 • Politics and Family
• 19 • Texas, Santa Anna, and War
• 20 • The Monarchist Plot and the US Invasion
• 21 • City, Congress, Wealth, Health
• 22 • Santa Anna Returns, Alamán Exits
• Part VII Lucas Alamán the Historian
• 23 • Getting the Historia Written
• 24 • What Is in the Historia de Méjico?
• Epilogue: On Decolonization and Modernization
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

Notes:

• Published with assistance from the foundation established in memory of James Wesley Cooper of the Class of 1865, Yale College.
• Also issued in print: 2021.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-300-25874-7

OCLC:

1250090203