Independent Mexico: The Pronunciamiento in the Age of Santa Anna, 1821-1858

by Will Fowler

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' tat, these pronunciamientos were actually a complex form of insurrectionary action that relied first on the proclamation and circulation of a plan that listed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803225393
• ISBN13: 9780803225398
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"