Forceful Negotiations
The Origins of the Pronunciamiento in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
Published on 1. January 2011
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368 pages
978-0-8032-2540-4 (ISBN)
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Often translated as "revolt," a pronunciamiento was a formal, written protest, typically drafted as a list of grievances or demands, that could result in an armed rebellion. This common nineteenth-century Hispano-Mexican extraconstitutional practice was used by soldiers and civilians to forcefully lobby, negotiate, or petition for political change. Although the majority of these petitions failed to achieve their aims, many leading political changes in nineteenth-century Mexico were caused or provoked by one of the more than fifteen hundred pronunciamientos filed between 1821 and 1876. The first of three volumes on the phenomenon of the pronunciamiento, this collection brings together leading scholars to investigate the origins of these forceful petitions. From both a regional and a national perspective, the essays examine specific pronunciamientos, such as the Plan of Iguala, and explore the contexts that gave rise to the use of the pronunciamiento as a catalyst for change. Forceful Negotiations offers a better understanding of the civil conflicts that erupted with remarkable and tragic consistency following the achievement of independence, as well as of the ways in which Mexican political culture legitimized the threat of armed rebellion as a means of effecting political change during this turbulent period.
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"The questions raised by the authors are important and the empirical contribution of the volume significant."-Eric Van Young, Journal of Interdisciplinary HistoryMore details
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English
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Lincoln
United States
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College/higher education
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Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
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463 gr
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978-0-8032-2540-4 (9780803225404)
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Will Fowler is the Director of Research of the School of Modern Languages at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of many publications, including Latin America since 1780; Tornel and Santa Anna: The Writer and the Caudillo, Mexico, 1795-1853; and Santa Anna of Mexico, available in a Bison Books edition. Contributors include Ivana Frasquet, Manuel Chust, Josefina Vazquez, Michael Ducey, Shara Ali, Reynaldo Sordo, Timothy E. Anna, Kerry Anne McDonald, Michael Costeloe, Melissa Boyd, Rosie Doyle, and German Martinez Martinez.
Content
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Nineteenth-Century Practice of the Pronunciamiento and Its Origins
Chronology of Main Events and Pronunciamientos, 18211853
1. Iguala: The Prototype
Timothy E. Anna
2. Agustin de Iturbide: From the Pronunciamiento of Iguala to the Coup of 1822
Ivana Frasquet and Manuel Chust
3. Two Reactions to the Illegitimate Succession of 1828: Campeche and Jalapa Josefina Zoraida Vazquez 4. Municipalities, Prefects, and Pronunciamientos: Power and Political Mobilizations in the Huasteca during the First Federal Republic
Michael T. Ducey
5. The Origins of the Pronunciamientos of San Luis Potosi: An Overview
Kerry McDonald
6. The British and an Early Pronunciamiento, 18331834
Michael P. Costeloe
7. The Origins of the Santiago Iman Revolt, 18381840: A Reassessment
Shara Ali
8. A Reluctant Advocate: Mariano Otero and the Revolucion de Jalisco
Melissa Boyd
9. Constitution and Congress: A Pronunciamiento for Legality, December 1844
Reynaldo Sordo Cedeno
10. "The Curious Manner in Which Pronunciamientos Are Got Up in this Country": The Plan of Blancarte of 26 July 1852
Rosie Doyle
11. Inventing the Nation: The Pronunciamiento and the Construction of Mexican National Identity, 18211876
German Martinez Martinez
12. "I Pronounce Thus I Exist": Redefining the Pronunciamiento in Independent Mexico, 18211876
Will Fowler
Bibliography
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Nineteenth-Century Practice of the Pronunciamiento and Its Origins
Chronology of Main Events and Pronunciamientos, 18211853
1. Iguala: The Prototype
Timothy E. Anna
2. Agustin de Iturbide: From the Pronunciamiento of Iguala to the Coup of 1822
Ivana Frasquet and Manuel Chust
3. Two Reactions to the Illegitimate Succession of 1828: Campeche and Jalapa Josefina Zoraida Vazquez 4. Municipalities, Prefects, and Pronunciamientos: Power and Political Mobilizations in the Huasteca during the First Federal Republic
Michael T. Ducey
5. The Origins of the Pronunciamientos of San Luis Potosi: An Overview
Kerry McDonald
6. The British and an Early Pronunciamiento, 18331834
Michael P. Costeloe
7. The Origins of the Santiago Iman Revolt, 18381840: A Reassessment
Shara Ali
8. A Reluctant Advocate: Mariano Otero and the Revolucion de Jalisco
Melissa Boyd
9. Constitution and Congress: A Pronunciamiento for Legality, December 1844
Reynaldo Sordo Cedeno
10. "The Curious Manner in Which Pronunciamientos Are Got Up in this Country": The Plan of Blancarte of 26 July 1852
Rosie Doyle
11. Inventing the Nation: The Pronunciamiento and the Construction of Mexican National Identity, 18211876
German Martinez Martinez
12. "I Pronounce Thus I Exist": Redefining the Pronunciamiento in Independent Mexico, 18211876
Will Fowler
Bibliography
Contributors