{"product_id":"the-other-rebellion-popular-violence-ideology-and-the-mexican-struggle-for-independence-18101821","title":"The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence  Ideology  and the Mexican Struggle for Independence  1810-1821","description":"\u003cp\u003eMexicos movement toward independence from Spain was a key episode in the dissolution of the great Spanish Empire  and its accompanying armed conflict arguably the first great war of decolonization in the nineteenth century. This book argues that in addition to being a war of national liberation  the struggle was also an internal war pitting classes and ethnic groups against each other  an intensely localized struggle by rural people  especially Indians  for the preservation of their communities. While local and national elites focused their energies on wresting power from colonial authorities and building a new nation-state  rural people were often much more concerned about keeping village identities and lifeways intact against the forces of state expansion  commercialization  and modernization. Conventional wisdom says that Mexican independence was achieved through a cross-class and cross-ethnic alliance between creole ideologues  military leaders  and a mass following. This book shows that this is not only an incomplete explanation of what went on in Mexico during the decade of armed confrontation that led to Mexicos independence  but also a distortion of Mexican social and cultural history. The author delves deeply into life histories  previously unexamined texts  statistical social profiling  and local historical ethnography to examine the dynamics of popular rebellion. He focuses especially on Mexicos Indian villages  but also considers the role of parish priests as insurgent leaders; local conflicts over land  politics  and religious symbols; the influence of messianism and millenarianism in popular insurgent ideology; and the everyday language of political upheaval.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986043793461,"sku":"ByrdShop_0804748217","price":40.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780804748216.jpg?v=1770882534","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-other-rebellion-popular-violence-ideology-and-the-mexican-struggle-for-independence-18101821","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}