Mexico in the Age of Proposals, 1821-1853

A study of the political development of the many factions that surfaced in Independent Mexico from the achievement of Independence in 1821 to General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna’s last government in 1853-55. Paying particular attention to the writings of the main thinkers of the period and the ways in which they inspired or were betrayed by their respective factions, this volume concentrates on the evolution of the different factions (traditionalists, moderates, radicals and santanistas), who sustained their beliefs at one point or another. It favours a chronological approach and puts significant emphasis on the way the hopes of the 1820s degenerated into the despair of the 1840s, and how these in turn affected the evolution of the different factions’ political proposals.