A01=Eric Van Young
Author_Eric Van Young
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Colonial Mexico
decolonization
Decolonization of Mexico
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Mexican Colonial Period
Mexican economic stagnation
Mexican history
Mexican independence
Mexican independence struggle
Mexican political instability
Mexican-American War
Mexico
Modernization
Modernization in Mexico
New Spain
President Santa Anna
Santa Anna
Product details
- ISBN 9781442209015
- Weight: 667g
- Dimensions: 161 x 237mm
- Publication Date: 11 May 2022
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Eric Van Young is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. His books include The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence, Ideology, and the Mexican Struggle for Independence, 1810-1821, winner of the 2002 Bolton-Johnson Prize.
