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...

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1. Verfasser:	Van Young, Eric (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New Haven, CT Yale University Press [2021]
Schlagworte:	Authors, Mexican / 19th century / Biography Statesmen / Mexico / Biography HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico
Online-Zugang:	UBY01 Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	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 An eminent historian's biography of one of Mexico's most prominent statesmen, thinkers, and writers 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 Alamán as a reactionary, Van Young's balanced portrait draws upon fifteen years of research to argue that Alamán was a conservative modernizer, 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. Van Young illuminates Alamán's contribution to the course of industrialization, advocacy for scientific development, and unerring faith in private property and institutions such as church and army as anchors for social stability, as well as his less commendable views, such as his disdain for popular democracy
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource
Format:	Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
ISBN:	9780300258745
DOI:	10.12987/9780300258745