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Historians have paid scant attention to the five years that span from the conclusion early in 1848 of Mexico's disastrous conflict with the United States to the final return to power in April 1853 of General Antonio López de Santa Anna. This volume presents a more thorough understanding of this pivotal time, and the issues and experiences that then affected Mexicans. It sheds light on how elite politics, church-state relations, institutional affairs, and peasant revolts played a crucial role in Mexico's long-term historical development, and also explores topics like marriage and everyday life, and the public trials and executions staged in the aftermath of the war with the U.S.
List of contents
1. Setting the Scene: The History and Historiography of Post-War Mexico, 1848-1853
Will Fowler and Pedro Santoni 2. The Will of the People:
Representaciones and Political Riots in Mid-Nineteenth Century Mexico City
Regina Tapia 3. Winds of a Coming Storm: The Failure of Vatican Diplomacy and the Rise of an Intransigent Leadership in the Mexican Church
Pablo Mijangos y González 4. "The Powerful Element That Would Certainly Have Saved Us": Debating the Revitalization of the National Guard in Post-War Mexico
Pedro Santoni 5. The Sierra Gorda
Pronunciamientos of 1848-1849 and the Origins of Popular Conservatism in Mexico
Will Fowler 6.
To Whom We Now Turn: The Problem of Leadership in Southeastern Mexico's Age of Transition, 1848-1855
Terry Rugeley 7. Violence, Collaboration, and Population Movements: The New United States-Mexico Border, 1848-1853
Marcela Terrazas y Bazante 8. Truth and Reconciliation in Front of the Firing Squad: Trials and Executions in Post-War Mexico
Everard Meade 9. "Looking for Virtuous Citizens by the Lamp of Diogenes": Governance, Moral Regulation, and Hegemony in Guanajuato, 1849-1853
Daniel S. Haworth
About the author
Pedro Santoni is Professor of Latin American History at California State University, San Bernardino.
Will Fowler is Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of St. Andrews.
Summary
This collection of essays adds to existing scholarship on familiar historical topics, but also explores several little-known aspects of Mexican history. The volume offers a sustained look at many facets that made up the post-1848 era in Mexico, whose impact would be felt for years to come.
