About this title: Mexico's movement toward independence from Spain was a key episode in the dissolution of the great Spanish Empire, and the accompanying armed conflict arguably the first great war of decolonization in the nineteenth century. This book makes the case that in addition to being a war of national liberation, the struggle was also an internal war pitting classes and ethnic groups against each other, an intensely localized struggle by rural people, especially Indians, for the preservation of their communities.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica, México
Date Published: 5/12/2006
ISBN-13:9789681675554ISBN:968167555X
Description: New in new dust jacket. Los pueblos de la provincia fueron los que abastecieron de soldados las filas rebeldes durante la guerra de Independencia en México. Con base en al análisis de la gran brecha cultural e ideológica que existía entre los dirigentes criollos de la lucha de extracción urbana, cultura libresca e ideas liberales a la europea y la tropa de fuerte composición indígena, rural y marcadamente localista, Eric Van Young escudriña las vidas de los insurrectos de los pueblos, cuyos ... read more
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