Table of Contents
List of Maps vii
List of Tables viii
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Understanding Individual and Collective Insurrectionary Action in Independent Mexico, 1821-1876 xviii
Chronology of Main Events and Pronunciamientos, 1821-1876 xxxvii
1 The Compass Points of Unrest: Pronunciamientos from Within, Without, Above, and Below in Southeast Mexico, 1821-1876 Terry Rugeley 1
2 The Rise and Fall of a Regional Strongman: Felipe de la Garza's Pronunciamiento of 1822 Catherine Andrews 22
3 Veracruz, the Determining Region: Military Pronunciamientos in Mexico, 1821-1846 Juan Ortiz Escamilla 42
4 The Clergy and How It Responded to Calls for Rebellion before the Mid-Nineteenth Century Anne Staples 68
5 José Ramón García Ugarte: Partriot, Federalist, or Malcontent? Linda Arnold 91
6 Ponciano Arriaga and Mariano Ávula's Intellectual Backing of the 14 April 1837 Pronunciamiento of San Luis Potosí Sergio A. CañGamboa 111
7 Ayuntamientos and Pronunciamientos during the Nineteenth Century: Examples from Tlaxcala between Independence and the Reform War Raymond Buve 129
8 The End of the "Catholic Nation": Reform and Reaction in Puebla, 1854-1856 Guy Thomson 148
9 In Search of Power: The Pronunciamientos of General Mariano Paredes y Arrillaga Josefina Zoraida Vázquez 171
10 The Pronunciamientos of Antonio López de Santa Anna, 1821-1867 Will Fowler 205
11 Intervention and Empire: Politics as Usual? Erika Pani 236
12 A Socialist Pronunciamiento: Julio López Chávez's Uprising of 1868 Eduardo Flores Clair 255
Bibliography 277
Contributors 295
