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Dr Guy Thomson, Room H338 g.p.c.thomson@warwick.ac.uk
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Introduction Frank Tannenbaum, Peace by Revolution: an Interpretation of Mexico 1932 “folk modernisation” Moisés Saenz, México Integro (1937) Helen Delpar, The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican. Cultural relations between the United States and Mexico, 1920-1935, University of Alabama Press, 1992
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Modern Mexico, 1810 to the Present - “ Defensive modernisation” - Elite projects and popular resistance: external (William Schell Integral Outsiders The American Colony in Mexico City, 1876-1911 2001) internal (Florencia Mallon Peasant and Nation The Making of Post- Colonial Mexico and Peru, California, 1994). - Regions: (Lesley Byrd Simpson, Many Mexicos,1941) - The North: California, New Mexico, Chihuahua and Coahuila- Texas.... - The Centre: Guadalajara, Michoacán, Mexico, Puebla - The South: Oaxaca, Yucatan, Chiapas
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Map of Mexico 1823
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Bourbon (and Mexican) defensive projects Brian Hamnett’s Ch.5 “Destabilisation and fragmentation, 1770- 1867” A Concise History of Mexico - alliance with France 1776-1808 - Church reforms and Religion (Nancy Farris, Crown and Clergy in Bourbon Mexico, William Taylor Magistrates of the Sacred) - Defence of the Northern frontier, taxation and debt - Intendancies and Creole autonomy - Militias
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Insurgency and Independence - 1808 “gachupín” coup against Viceroy José de Iturrigaray, 1808 - Creole autonomism and the Constitution of Cádiz, 1808-1814 - Popular insurgency 1810-1815 - Restoration of absolutism and Creole counter-revolution, 1814- 1820 - Restoration of the Constitution, the Plan de Iguala and the Army of Three Guarantees, 1820-21 (Independence, Church and Army, Spaniards and Mexicans)
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Priests and the Insurgency Miguel Hidalgo y CostillaJosé María Morelos y Pavón
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Agustín de Iturbide, 1783 – July 1824
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Vicente Guerrero, 1782-1831
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From Empire to Federal Republic, 1821-1824 Representation: Corporate or individual? Monarchy or Republic ? Carbonari: Claudio Linati, “El Iris” and the Lodges President and Congress Central or provincial ? Antonio López de Santa Anna, Plan de Jalapa Federal Constitution: República de los Estados Unidos de México (1824)
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“Parties” Escocés Masonic Lodge, Aceites (Oaxaca), Moderados/Conservatives, Great Britain (Henry Ward) Yorkino Masonic Lodge, Vinagres (Oaxaca), Puros, the US (Joel Poinsett)
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Elections Pablo Villavicencio complained in 1826 of the involvement of confraternities (cofradías) in elections in Antequera (Oaxaca): “…reuniones nocturnas que acostumbran concurrir a la casa de un devoto dueño de estandarte y algunos faroles que, como tal, es el capataz de cincuenta o sesenta, en cuya compañia sale resando el rosario por las calles y cantando a gritos el Ave María."
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Policies (yorkinos/vinagres) Popular mobilisation and electoral preparations Nativism: Expulsion of Spaniards (Harold Sims, The Expulsion of Mexico’s Spaniards Pittsburgh, 1990) - Armed citizenship: National Militia - States’ rights: Federalism - The cries of artisans: Protectionism
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Events September 1828 Contested presidential election: Manuel Gómez Pedraza versus Vicente Guerrero November 30 1828 Revolution of La Acordada led by Guerrero and Yorkinos December 4 1828 Motín del Parían
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Agustín Arrieta, Tertulia en una Pulquería (Puebla, 1851)
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Agustín Arrieta, Escena popular de mercado con dama, n.d.
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