| ISBN: 978-1-55587-476-6 $42.00 | ||
| 1994/330 pages/LC: 93-33325 | ||
Among the specific issues examined in the book are the policies of Jose de Galvez, political transformations in colonial Sonora and Yucatan, elite politics during the movement for independence and the socioeconomic status of early national politicians, the transition from colonial to independent state, the Constitution of 1824, and the roles of the clergy and the regions in early national politics. Five out of the thirteen chapters are in Spanish. The authors offer a broadly based picture of the newly independent Mexico, plagued by economic stagnation, sectarian politics, regionalism, and foreign threats, but ultimately successful, after several decades, in consolidating its power.
"Historians of colonial and early national Mexico will find this a very useful volume...”—Journal of Third World Studies
"The essays are of unusually high quality.... This is an important collection that will stimulate scholars of Mexico’s middle period’ and historians of nationalism and political change in other regions of Latin America as well."—The Americas