- 1994/330 pages
Mexico in the Age of Democratic Revolutions, 1750-1850
Hardcover: $42.00
ISBN: 978-1-55587-476-6
For a century beginning in the 1750s, Europe and the Americas underwent a series of profound political, economic, and social changes, ushering in the modern era. This book examines the experience of Mexico during that "age of democratic revolutions."
Among the specific issues examined in the book are the policies of Jose de Galvez, political transformations in colonial Sonora and Yucatan, elite politics during the movement for independence and the socioeconomic status of early national politicians, the transition from colonial to independent state, the Constitution of 1824, and the roles of the clergy and the regions in early national politics. Five out of the thirteen chapters are in Spanish. The authors offer a broadly based picture of the newly independent Mexico, plagued by economic stagnation, sectarian politics, regionalism, and foreign threats, but ultimately successful, after several decades, in consolidating its power.
