Stormy Passage
Mexico from Colony to Republic, 1750–1850
Abstract
In this engaging book, Eric Van Young traces the political, economic, and social development of Mexico through the crucial one hundred years of its remarkable transition from a relatively prosperous Spanish colony to a violently unstable republic marked by economic stagnation, political confrontation, and burgeoning efforts at modernization. Featuring primary sources from figures of the period, Van Young discusses the political instability of the period—internal warfare, military uprisings, intermittent dictatorships, sharp conflicts among political groupings—and attributes them to a belief by political actors in the fundamental lack of legitimacy in central government institutions after the sweeping away of the Bourbon imperial structure and its replacement first with a very short-lived Mexican empire followed by a series of increasingly authoritarian aspirational republican constitutions.
Schlagworte
New Spain Modernization Modernization in Mexico President Santa Anna Santa Anna Mexican Colonial Period Mexican economic stagnation Mexican history Mexican independence Mexican independence struggle Mexican political instability Mexican-American War Mexico Decolonization of Mexico Colonial Mexico decolonization- 309–316 Conclusion 309–316
- 317–332 For Further Reading 317–332
- 333–348 Index 333–348