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THE OTHER REBELLION
POPULAR VIOLENCE, IDEOLOGY AND THE MEXICAN STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE, 1810-1821 |
| By: |
Eric Van Young |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£58.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0804737401 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780804737401 |
| Publisher: |
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 May, 2001 |
| Pages: |
720 |
| Description: |
Mexico's movement toward independence from Spain was a key episode in the dissolution of the Spanish Empire, and its accompanying armed conflict was the first great war of decolonization in the 19th century. This work argues that the war was an internal war pitting classes against each other. |
| Synopsis: |
Mexico's movement toward independence from Spain was a key episode in the dissolution of the great Spanish Empire, and its accompanying armed conflict arguably the first great war of decolonization in the nineteenth century. This book argues that in addition to being a war of national liberation, the struggle was also an internal war pitting classes and ethnic groups against each other, an intensely localized struggle by rural people, especially Indians, for the preservation of their communities. While local and national elites focused their energies on wresting power from colonial authorities and building a new nation-state, rural people were often much more concerned about keeping village identities and lifeways intact against the forces of state expansion, commercialization, and modernization. Conventional wisdom says that Mexican independence was achieved through a cross-class and cross-ethnic alliance between creole ideologues, military leaders, and a mass following.This book shows that this is not only an incomplete explanation of what went on in Mexico during the decade of armed confrontation that led to Mexico s independence, but also a distortion of Mexican social and cultural history. |
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Illustrations, maps |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Stanford University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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