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