Mexico, 1848-1853

Pedro Santoni is Professor of Latin American History at California State University, San Bernardino.Will Fowler is Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of St. Andrews.

• 1. Setting the Scene: The History and Historiography of Post-War Mexico, 1848-1853 Will Fowler and Pedro Santoni 2. The Will of the People: Representaciones and Political Riots in Mid-Nineteenth Century Mexico City Regina Tapia 3. Winds of a Coming Storm: The Failure of Vatican Diplomacy and the Rise of an Intransigent Leadership in the Mexican Church Pablo Mijangos y González 4. "The Powerful Element That Would Certainly Have Saved Us": Debating the Revitalization of the National Guard in Post-War Mexico Pedro Santoni 5. The Sierra Gorda Pronunciamientos of 1848-1849 and the Origins of Popular Conservatism in Mexico Will Fowler 6. To Whom We Now Turn: The Problem of Leadership in Southeastern Mexico’s Age of Transition, 1848-1855 Terry Rugeley 7. Violence, Collaboration, and Population Movements: The New United States-Mexico Border, 1848-1853 Marcela Terrazas y Bazante 8. Truth and Reconciliation in Front of the Firing Squad: Trials and Executions in Post-War Mexico Everard Meade 9. "Looking for Virtuous Citizens by the Lamp of Diogenes": Governance, Moral Regulation, and Hegemony in Guanajuato, 1849-1853 Daniel S. Haworth