Author: Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0871690306
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Author: Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0871690306
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Documentos de la relación de México con los Estados Unidos: El mester político de Poinsett (noviembre de 1824-diciembre de 1829)
Author: Carlos Bosch GarcíaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The American Union and the Problem of Neighborhood
Author: James E. Lewis Jr.Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080786689X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
In this book, James Lewis demonstrates the centrality of American ideas about and concern for the union of the states in the policymaking of the early republic. For four decades after the nation's founding in the 1780s, he says, this focus on securing a union operated to blur the line between foreign policies and domestic concerns. Such leading policymakers as Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, and Henry Clay worried about the challenges to the goals of the Revolution that would arise from a hostile neighborhood--whether composed of new nations outside the union or the existing states following a division of the union. At the center of Lewis's story is the American response to the dissolution of Spain's empire in the New World, from the transfer of Louisiana to France in 1800 to the independence of Spain's mainland colonies in the 1820s. The breakup of the Spanish empire, he argues, presented a series of crises for the unionist logic of American policymakers, leading them, finally, to abandon a crucial element of the distinctly American approach to international relations embodied in their own federal union.
A Life Together
Author: Eric Van YoungPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300233914
Category : Authors, Mexican
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
An eminent historian's biography of one of Mexico's most prominent statesmen, thinkers, and writers Lucas Alamán (1792-1853) was the most prominent statesman, political economist, and historian in nineteenth-century Mexico. Alamán served as the central ministerial figure in the national government on three occasions, founded the Conservative Party in the wake of the Mexican-American War, and authored the greatest historical work on Mexico's struggle for independence. Though Mexican historiography has painted Alamán as a reactionary, Van Young's balanced portrait draws upon fifteen years of research to argue that Alamán was a conservative modernizer, whose north star was always economic development and political stability as the means of drawing Mexico into the North Atlantic world of advanced nation-states. Van Young illuminates Alamán's contribution to the course of industrialization, advocacy for scientific development, and unerring faith in private property and institutions such as church and army as anchors for social stability, as well as his less commendable views, such as his disdain for popular democracy.
Stormy Passage
Author: Eric Van YoungPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442209038
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
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.
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Contains records describing books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American studies. Coverage includes relevant books as well as over 800 social science and 550 humanities journals and volumes of conference proceedings. Most records include abstracts with evaluations.
A London Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
Vols. 1-4 include material to June 1, 1929.
Bibliographic Guide to Latin American Studies
Author: Black Mexico
Author: Ben Vinson (III.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This edited volume compiles the most recent research on a pivotal topic in Latin American history--Afro-Mexican experiences from pre-conquest to the modern period.
France, Mexico and Informal Empire in Latin America, 1820-1867
Author: Edward ShawcrossPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319704648
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
This book explores French imperialism in Latin America in the nineteenth century, taking Mexico as a case study. The standard narrative of nineteenth-century imperialism in Latin America is one of US expansion and British informal influence. However, it was France, not Britain, which made the most concerted effort to counter US power through Louis-Napoléon’s military intervention in Mexico, begun in 1862, which created an empire on the North American continent under the Habsburg Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian. Despite its significance to French and Latin American history, this French imperial project is invariably described as an “illusion”, an “adventure” or a “mirage”. This book challenges these conclusions and places the French intervention in Mexico within the context of informal empire. It analyses French and Mexican ideas about monarchy in Latin America; responses to US expansion and the development of anti-Americanism and pan-Latinism; the consolidation of Mexican conservatism; and, finally, the collaboration of some Mexican elites with French imperialism. An important dimension of the relationship between Mexico and France, explored in the book, is the transatlantic and transnational context in which it developed, where competing conceptions of Mexico and France as nations, the role of Europe and the United States in the Americas and the idea of Latin America itself were challenged and debated.