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Auteur(s) : McEnroe, Sean Francis
Titre(s) : From colony to nationhood in Mexico [Texte imprimé] : laying the foundations, 1560-1840 / Sean F. McEnroe
Publication : Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012
Description matérielle : x, 252 p., : ill., maps ; 24 cm
Comprend : Introduction ; 1. Tlaxcalan vassals of the north ; 2. Multiethnic Indian republics
; 3. Becoming Tlaxcalan ; 4. Exporting the Tlaxcalan system ; 5. War and citizenship
; 6. Modern towns and casteless citizens ; Conclusion.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-244) and index
"In an age of revolution, Mexico's creole leaders held aloft the Virgin of Guadalupe
and brandished an Aztec eagle perched upon a European tricolor. Their new constitution
proclaimed 'the Mexican nation is forever free and independent'. Yet the genealogy
of this new nation is not easy to trace. Colonial Mexico was a patchwork state whose
new-world vassals served the crown, extended the empire's frontiers and lived out
their civic lives in parallel Spanish and Indian republics. Theirs was a world of
complex intercultural alliances, interlocking corporate structures and shared spiritual
and temporal ambitions. Sean F. McEnroe describes this history at the greatest and
smallest geographical scales, reconsidering what it meant to be an Indian vassal,
nobleman, soldier or citizen over three centuries in northeastern Mexico. He argues
that the Mexican municipality, state and citizen were not so much the sudden creations
of a revolutionary age as the progeny of a mature multiethnic empire"-- ; "In November
1782, Vicente Gonzales de Santianes, the governor of Nuevo Leon, received a sheaf
of documents from a protracted legal dispute in the Indian town of San Miguel de Aguayo.
At first glance, the case seems so utterly commonplace as to be beneath the notice
of the region's chief magistrate. One of San Miguel's Tlaxcalan stoneworkers had been
accused of an adulterous liaison with a townswoman"--
Sujet(s) : Tlaxcaltèques -- Histoire
Mexique -- 1540-1810 (Colonie espagnole)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107006300 (hardback). - ISBN 1107006309 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb427936544
Notice n° :
FRBNF42793654
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