Ivana Frasquet Miguel, The faces of the eagle: from Gaditan liberalism to the Mexican federal republic, 1820-1824, Castelló de la Plana, Universitat Jaume I/Instituto Mora/Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana/Universidad Veracruzana, 2008, 382 p.
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Abstract
In the run-up to the commemoration of the bicentenary of Spanish-American independence, the work described here is a particularly interesting interpretation of the birth and first steps of the Mexican national state. The author takes a distance from some recent interpretations, which underline the undemocratic nature of liberalism, while also highlighting the weight of the insurrection of 1810 in the construction of the representative government, and of the Plan de Casa Mat...