Table of Contents

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. An introduction; 2. The end of federalism; 3. The transition to centralism: stage I; 4. The transition to centralism: stage II; 5. Las Siete Leyes; 6. Anastasio Bustamante and the centralist republic, 1837–9; 7. Santa Anna versus Bustamante: the end of the Siete Leyes, 1839–41; 8. 'La dictadur disfrazada con el hermoso nombre de regeneración política'; 9. Santa Anna and the Bases Orgánicas; 10. 'La revolución de tres horas'; 11. Herrera and the rise of Paredes y Arrillaga; 12. Hombres de bien and the restoration of federalism; Conclusion; Sources and works cited.

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This book examines why centralism failed during the Age of Santa Ana in Mexico, and how federalism came to be abandoned.

Reviews

"Casteloe has written the most comrehensive study in English of a very turbulent era of Mexican history." Social & Behavioral Sciences "In contrast to Hernandez's broad interpretive work, Michael Costeloe's The Central Republic of Mexico, 1835-1846: Hombres de Bien and the Age of Santa Anna is tightly woven empirical study of events and personages during the decade of Mexico's first experiment with centrslist-style government." Latin American research