Mexico in the Age of Proposals, 1821-1853

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A study of the political development of the many factions that surfaced in Independent Mexico from the achievement of Independence in 1821 to General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna's last government in 1853-55. Paying particular attention to the writings of the main thinkers of the period and the ways in which they inspired or were betrayed by their respective factions, this volume concentrates on the evolution of the different factions (traditionalists, moderates, radicals and santanistas), who sustained their beliefs at one point or another. It favours a chronological approach and puts significant emphasis on the way the hopes of the 1820s degenerated into the despair of the 1840s, and how these in turn affected the evolution of the different factions' political proposals.

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"Fowler's book is ambitious and far-reaching, very helpful in clarifying strands of political thought in the first thirty years after Mexican independence. It is particularly insightful in its presentation of the impact of chronology and changing circumstances on political ideology."-Timothy E. Anna University of Manitoba
.,."a clear and meaningful synthesis of recent scholarship on political and social thought during the tragic formative era of the Mexican nation."-Choice
...a clear and meaningful synthesis of recent scholarship on political and social thought during the tragic formative era of the Mexican nation.-Choice
"This is a complex and ambitious study that should be read by anyone who wishes to grapple with the politics of the epoch...Fowler cleans the slate of old generalities and the simplifications that appear in almost all text-books on the history of Mexico."-Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos
[T]he book will be useful to specialists. It also successfully makes the case for further research on ideological currents and parties in the period.-Americas
"The book will be useful to specialists. It also successfully makes the case for further research on ideological currents and parties in the period."-Americas
..."a clear and meaningful synthesis of recent scholarship on political and social thought during the tragic formative era of the Mexican nation."-Choice
"[T]he book will be useful to specialists. It also successfully makes the case for further research on ideological currents and parties in the period."-Americas
""This is a complex and ambitious study that should be read by anyone who wishes to grapple with the politics of the epoch...Fowler cleans the slate of old generalities and the simplifications that appear in almost all text-books on the history of Mexico.""-Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos

Author Bio

WILL FOWLER lectures in Latin American and Spanish history and literature at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He has published a number of monographs and articles on politics in Mexico and is the editor of Authoritarianism in Latin America Since Independence (Greenwood, 1996) and Ideologues and Ideologies in Latin America (Greenwood, 1997).