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A life together : Lucas Alaman and Mexico, 1792-1853
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Lucas Alamán (1792-1853) was the most prominent statesman, political economist, and historian in nineteenth-century Mexico. Alamán served as the central ministerial figure in the national governmen...
Lucas Alamán (1792-1853) was the most prominent statesman, political economist, and historian in nineteenth-century Mexico. Alamán served as the central ministerial figure in the national government on three occasions, founded the Conservative Party in the wake of the Mexican-American War, and authored the greatest historical work on Mexico's struggle for independence. Though Mexican historiography has painted Alamǹ as a reactionary, Van Young's balanced portrait draws upon fifteen years of research to argue that Alamán was a conservative moderniser, whose north star was always economic development and political stability as the means of drawing Mexico into the North Atlantic world of advanced nation-states.
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- Creator
- Eric Van Young
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- English
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- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2021
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- 1 online resource (848 pages)
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- 9780300233919, 0300233914, 9780300258745, 0300258747
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- on1198557338, on1250090203, on1269094527
- Published with assistance from the foundation established in memory of James Wesley Cooper of the Class of 1865, Yale College.
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Youth -- 1 • An Old and Distinguished Family -- 2 • A Silver-Plated Youth (1792-1815) -- 3 • Years of Pilgrimage, First Steps in Politics, and a Betrothal (1816-1823) -- Part II The Statesman Emerges -- 4 • The Spanish Cortes and a Final Sojourn in Paris (1821-1822) -- 5 • Brothers -- Part III Into the Maelstrom (1823-1825) -- 6 • The Meanings of Anarchy -- 7 • Domestic Tranquility -- 8 • Diplomacy -- 9 • The Poinsett Saga -- Part IV Making Money -- 10 • Shafted The United Mexican Mining Association (1824-1830) -- 11 • Managing the Feudal Remnant Alamán and the Duque (1824-1853) -- Part V High Tide of Power, Fall, and Internal Exile(1830-1834) -- 12 • An Ordered and Prosperous Republic -- 13 • Texas -- 14 • The Banco de Avío -- 15 • The War of the South and the Death of Guerrero -- 16 • The Reckoning -- 17 • Weaving Disaster Cocolapan (1836-1843) -- Part VI Alamánat Midlife, Brief Return to Power, Last Days(1835-1853) -- 18 • Politics and Family -- 19 • Texas, Santa Anna, and War -- 20 • The Monarchist Plot and the US Invasion -- 21 • City, Congress, Wealth, Health -- 22 • Santa Anna Returns, Alamán Exits -- Part VII Lucas Alamán the Historian -- 23 • Getting the Historia Written -- 24 • What Is in the Historia de Méjico? -- Epilogue: On Decolonization and Modernization -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index