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Studies in Spanish American regional history have, as yet, made little attempt to incorporate the struggles for independence within the context of provincial society and politics viewed over the broader period that spans the late colonial and early national experience of Latin America. This book attempts a new perspective: it emphasises the provincial milieu and popular participation in its varied forms, often ambiguous and contradictory. The central aim is to examine social conflicts, chiefly in the Mexican provinces of Puebla, Guadalajara, Michoacán, and Guanajuato from the middle of the eighteenth century, and to assess their relationship to the widespread insurgency of the second decade of the nineteenth century.

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• List of maps
• Acknowledgements
• Weights and measures
• Introduction
• 1 Social tensions in the provinces
• 2 Insurgency - characteristics and responses
• 3 Conflict, protest and rebellion
• 4 Death and dislocation
• 5 Insurrection - recruitment and extension
• 6 The struggle for Puebla, 1811-13
• 7 Local conflict and provincial chieftains
• 8 Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

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CHOICE Review

Hamnett's book is the first of several studies expected to revitalize the study of the independence period in Mexico. Hamnett's work stresses the regional characteristics of these overlapping insurgencies. His original, dynamic, and regional interpretation draws on previously little-used archives in such provincial centers as Guadalajara, Puebla, and Morelia. Using these sources, Hamnett successfully draws a connection between the social tensions of the late colonial period and the disruptions of the 19th-century republic. Excellent bibliography and index. Clear maps complement the text. College, university, and public libraries.-W.H. Beezley, North Carolina State University