Mexico, 1848-1853: Los Años Olvidados

ISBN-13: 9780367587789 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 260 str.

Pedro Santoni; Will Fowler

Opis

This collection of essays adds to existing scholarship on familiar historical topics, but also explores several little-known aspects of Mexican history. The volume offers a sustained look at many facets that made up the post-1848 era in Mexico, whose impact would be felt for years to come.

Spis treści

1. Setting the Scene: The History and Historiography of Post-War Mexico, 1848-1853  Will Fowler and Pedro Santoni  2. The Will of the People: Representaciones and Political Riots in Mid-Nineteenth Century Mexico City  Regina Tapia  3. Winds of a Coming Storm: The Failure of Vatican Diplomacy and the Rise of an Intransigent Leadership in the Mexican Church  Pablo Mijangos y González  4. "The Powerful Element That Would Certainly Have Saved Us": Debating the Revitalization of the National Guard in Post-War Mexico  Pedro Santoni  5. The Sierra Gorda Pronunciamientos of 1848-1849 and the Origins of Popular Conservatism in Mexico  Will Fowler  6. To Whom We Now Turn: The Problem of Leadership in Southeastern Mexico’s Age of Transition, 1848-1855  Terry Rugeley  7. Violence, Collaboration, and Population Movements: The New United States-Mexico Border, 1848-1853  Marcela Terrazas y Bazante  8. Truth and Reconciliation in Front of the Firing Squad: Trials and Executions in Post-War Mexico  Everard Meade  9. "Looking for Virtuous Citizens by the Lamp of Diogenes": Governance, Moral Regulation, and Hegemony in Guanajuato, 1849-1853  Daniel S. Haworth

O autorze

Pedro Santoni is Professor of Latin American History at California State University, San Bernardino.

Will Fowler is Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of St. Andrews.