The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence, Ideology, and the Mexican Struggle for Independence, 1810-1821

by Eric Van Young

Book Overview

Mexico's movement toward independence from Spain was a key episode in the dissolution of the great Spanish Empire, and its accompanying armed conflict arguably the first great war of decolonization in the nineteenth century. This book argues that in addition to being a war of national liberation, the struggle was also an internal war pitting classes and ethnic groups against each other, an intensely localized struggle by rural people, especially...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804748217
• ISBN13: 9780804748216
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.0" x 10.1"