Independent Mexico: The Pronunciamiento in the Age of Santa Anna, 1821-1858 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803225398)

In mid-nineteenth-century Mexico, garrisons, town councils, state legislatures, and an array of political actors, groups, and communities began aggressively petitioning the government at both local and national levels to address their grievances. Often viewed as a revolt or a coup d'騁at, these pronunciamientos were actually a complex form of insurrectionary action that relied first on the proclamation and circulation of a plan that listed the petitioners' demands and then on endorsement by copycat pronunciamientos that forced the authorities, be they national or regional, to the negotiating table. In Independent Mexico, Will Fowler provides a comprehensive overview of the pronunciamiento practice following the Plan of Iguala. This fourth and final installment in, and culmination of, a larger exploration of the pronunciamiento highlights the extent to which this model of political contestation evolved. The result of more than three decades of pronunciamiento politics was the bloody Civil War of the Reforma (1858-60) and the ensuing French Intervention (1862-67). Given the frequency and importance of the pronunciamiento, this book is also a concise political history of independent Mexico.


Author: Will Fowler
ISBN-10: 0803225393
ISBN-13: 9780803225398
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2016
Pages: 396
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2016