Table of Contents

Part I Rebels: A Social Profile; Full-Face Portraits; Hard Times And Rebellion; Full-Face Portraits II - Love, Suggestability, Curiosity, Pressment; The Age Of Excuses - Rituals Of Confession And Pardon; Indians. Part II Leaders And Followers: Indian Notables; Local Cabecillas; A Village Delinquent - Chito Villagran; Priest And Parish; Loyalist Curates And Warrior Priests; The Social Construction Of Priestly Subversion And Rebellion; Four Clerical Cabecillas. Part III Popular Violence And Ideology: The Verbal Culture Of Internal War - Loose Talk, Rumour, Sedition, And Propaganda; Anatomy Of A Riot I - Atlacomulco, 1810; Anatomy Of A Riot II - The Dynamics Of Local Political Violence In New Spain, 1750-1820; Masked Messiahs And Truncated Utopias; Conclusion - The Other Rebellion In Comparative Perspective.

About the Author

Eric Van Young is Professor and Chair of the Department of History and Associate Director of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego. His most recent book is Colección documental sobre la Independencia Mexico.

Reviews

"This is a work of prodigious scholarship... The tome is deeply learned with many references to anthropology, psychiatry, psychology, and sociology... The book is judiciously written, superbly argued, and relentless... More than any historian in recent memory, Van Young literally lets the people speak for themselves through the documents." - Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History "van Young has thoroughly examined and incorporated significant primary archival and secondary sources, from both in the United States and Mexico, in this superbly researched, well-written monograph of the causes of the rebellion in Mexico that resulted in independence... The Other Rebellion offers important new insights and perspectives and would be especially useful for upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars interested in studying Mexico in the early nineteenth century." - History: Reviews of New Books "This is an important book - vast, deeply researched, and carefully argued... Like every important work, this one raises questions that will contribute to persistent debates." - The Journal of Interdisciplinary History "Ambitious in size, scope, and revisionist objective. [The Other Rebellion's] theoretical and methodological sophistication and ecumenism challenge and reward the reader. The end result is essential reading for those interested in the history of Mexico, and a work that provides ample rewards to those drawn more generally to the study of popular upheaval in the modern world ...The quantitative data, supported by a close reading of a wide variety of qualitative sources, yield provocative results ...With treasures throughout, readers with specialties beyond those of the book's primary audience, as well as those squarely within it, will be greatly enriched by sticking with this book to the end." - American Historical Review "The atmosphere of rural life is highlighted compellingly from the author's exhaustive research and brilliant analysis." - Douglas W. Richmond, University of Texas at Arlington