"We are now the true Spaniards" : sovereignty, revolution, independence, and the emergence of the Federal Republic of Mexico, 1808-1824
Jaime E. Rodríguez O. (Author)
This book is a radical reinterpretation of the process that led to Mexican independence in 1821--one that emphasizes Mexico's continuity with Spanish political culture. During its final decades under Spanish rule, New Spain was the most populous, richest, and most developed part of the worldwide Spanish Monarchy, and most novohispanos (people of New Spain) believed that their religious, social, economic, and political ties to the Monarchy made union preferable to separation. Neither the American nor the French Revolution convinced the novohispanos to sever ties with the Spanish Monarchy; nor did the Hidalgo Revolt of September 1810 and subsequent insurgencies cause Mexican independence
eBook, English, 2012
Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 2012
History
1 online resource (xx, 497 pages) : illustrations, maps
9780804784634, 0804784639
794489189
A shared political culture
The collapse of the Spanish monarchy
The events of 1809
Two revolutions
The Cádiz Revolution
A fragmented insurgency
Separation
The Mexican Empire
The formation of the federal republic