ID - 25520366 TI - From colony to nationhood in Mexico : laying the foundations, 1560-1840 PY - 2014 SN - 9781107690714 9781107006300 9781139026253 9781139525794 1139525794 9781139528184 1139528181 1139026259 1107006309 9781139530460 1139539809 1107227453 128352189X 1139526995 9786613834348 1139531654 1139530461 1107690714 9781139539807 9781107227453 9781139526999 6613834343 9781139531658 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - History of Mexico KW - anno 1500-1799 KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - Tlaxcalan Indians KW - Tlascala Indians KW - Tlascalan Indians KW - Tlaxcaltecan Indians KW - Indians of Mexico KW - Colonization KW - Nuevo León (Mexico : State) KW - Mexico KW - Gobierno del Estado de Nuevo León (Mexico) KW - Nuevo León, Mexico KW - Nuevo León (Mexico : Department) KW - Nuevo Reino de León KW - Nuevo León y Coahuila (Mexico) KW - Spain KW - History. KW - Ethnic relations KW - History KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Nuevo Leon (Mexico : State) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:25520366 AB - In an age of revolution, Mexico's creole leaders held aloft the Virgin of Guadalupe and brandished an Aztec eagle perched upon a European tricolor. Their new constitution proclaimed 'the Mexican nation is forever free and independent'. Yet the genealogy of this new nation is not easy to trace. Colonial Mexico was a patchwork state whose new-world vassals served the crown, extended the empire's frontiers and lived out their civic lives in parallel Spanish and Indian republics. Theirs was a world of complex intercultural alliances, interlocking corporate structures and shared spiritual and temporal ambitions. Sean F. McEnroe describes this history at the greatest and smallest geographical scales, reconsidering what it meant to be an Indian vassal, nobleman, soldier or citizen over three centuries in northeastern Mexico. He argues that the Mexican municipality, state and citizen were not so much the sudden creations of a revolutionary age as the progeny of a mature multiethnic empire. ER -