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A life together Lucas Alamán and Mexico, 1792-1853

Title: A life together [electronic resource] : Lucas Alamán and Mexico, 1792-1853 / Eric Van Young.
Author: Van Young, Eric.
Publication: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]

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1 online resource (x, 833 pages)

Summary

"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."--

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Life together (Online)

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Life together (Online)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 787-818) and index.

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Contents

Part I. -- Youth -- Part II. -- The statesman emerges -- Part III. -- Into the maelstrom -- Part IV. -- Making money -- Part V. -- High tide of power, fall, and internal exile (1830-1834) -- Part VI. -- Alamán at midlife, brief return to power, last days (1835-1853) -- Part VII. -- Lucas Alamán the historian.

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