Format:
xx, 497 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780804778305
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9780804784634
Content:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Content:
This book is a radical reinterpretation of the process that led to Mexican independence in 1821-one that emphasizes Mexico's continuity with Spanish political culture. During its final decades under Spanish rule, New Spain was the most populous, richest, and most developed part of the worldwide Spanish Monarchy, and most novohispanos (people of New Spain) believed that their religious, social, economic, and political ties to the Monarchy made union preferable to separation. Neither the American nor the French Revolution convinced the novohispanos to sever ties with the Spanish Monarchy; nor di
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Table of Contents; Preface; A Note about America and Americans; Terms Used in the Text; Introduction; 1. A Shared Political Culture; 2. The Collapse of the Spanish Monarchy; 3. The Events of 1809; 4. Two Revolutions; 5. The Cádiz Revolution; 6. A Fragmented Insurgency; 7. Separation; 8. The Mexican Empire; 9. The Formation of the Federal Republic; Conclusion; Notes; Sources; Index
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Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804778305
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe "We Are Now the True Spaniards" : Sovereignty, Revolution, Independence, and the Emergence of the Federal Republic of Mexico, 1808-1824
Language:
English
Keywords:
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