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Title: The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence, Ideology, and the Mexican Struggle for Independence, 1810-1821 by Eric Van Young, Eric Van Young ISBN: 0-8047-4821-7 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Summary: Prof. Van Young's book is superb.
Comment: Van Young's interpretation of the insurgency- and pre-insurgency-era countryside is superb. Van Young convincingly offers a scholarly, revisionist, highly anecdotally-based perspective on peasant mentality, ideology, and behavior. Revisionist because of his use of often neglected sorts of archival data and because of his skepticism of accepted interpretations of peasant collective expression. Van Young suggests that peasant participation in the insurgency was driven by localistic goals, i.e., the preservation of ethnic identity and culture, not by the prospect of an independent state. In his study, Van Young combines insurgency and pre-insurgency periods to discover substantial continuity in the mentality and behavior of the rural peasantry to support his interpretation of the countryside. He writes, "...the village tumulto of the decade 1810-1821 was the quintessential expression of political thinking on the part of the village-dwelling indigenous population, which after all made up the largest group in New Spain and the most important single component amongst the insurgents as well. If this contention is correct and if the basic origins and forms of communitarian collective action demonstrated a marked continuity between, say, 1750 and 1820 or so, as I believe it did, then it must follow that the political circumstances of the 1810-1821 insurgency were in a sense incidental to the political or other aspirations of country people as given voice in collective action at the local level." This statement implies that the largest and most important body of the insurgency, i.e., the rural peasantry, was not compelled by what the formation of a "national" project represented. Van Young makes clear the distinction between rebelliousness and conscious overthrowing of the colonial regime for effective independence. Rebelliousness and conscious insurrection describe the two bodies of the insurgency movement, the rural, mostly indigenous peasantry and the creole directorate, respectively. One acquires a solid understanding of this period in Mexican history after reading this book.
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