Malcontents, Rebels, and Pronunciados: The Politics of Insurrection in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

Contributors

Catherine Andrews, of the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas at the Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas (Mexico), obtained her PhD in Mexican history at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, in 2001. Her principal line of research is the construction of the Mexican state in the nineteenth century. She has published various articles on this subject and the monograph Entre la constitución y la pared: El general Anastasio Bustamante (1780– 1853) (2008). Linda Arnold, professor of history at Virginia Tech, received her PhD in Latin America history from the University ofTexas in 1982. Her research explores the sociopolitical dynamics of Mexican institutions . She is the author of Bureaucracy and Bureaucrats in Mexico City, 1742–1835 and Política y Justicia: La Suprema Corte mexicana, 1824–1855 in addition to numerous articles. Her current research focuses on military justice in nineteenth-century Mexico. In the process of searching for sources, she has produced cd-rom electronic catalogs in searchable pdf format for a number of archives. Emeritus professor Raymond Buve was professor of Latin American history at the Department of Latin American Studies, Leiden University, until 1998, having been chair of the board of the Centro de Estudios y Documentación Latinoamericana (cedla) at Contributors 296 Contributors Amsterdam University (1992–97) and guest professor at the Clingendael Institute for International Relations in the Hague (1974– 2009). In 1994 he was honored with the Águila Azteca for his lifelong contribution to Mexican history. His work has focused on the history of the state of Tlaxcala, from the War of Independence to the Mexican Revolution. Sergio A. Cañedo Gamboa is a full-time professor at El Colegio de San Luis in San Puis Potosí. His area of specialization is the first half of the nineteenth century in Mexico and the transition to capitalism in the United States. He has published Los festejos septembrinos en San Luis Potosí: Protocolo, discurso y transformaciones , 1824–1847 (2001); La agencia consular británica en San Luis Potosí: Cinco libros y tres cónsules 1846–1867 (2007), and “De los primeros años de vida republicana a la guerra con Estados Unidos , 1824–1847” in Capítulos de la historia de San Luis Potosí, siglos XIX al XX (2009) as well as a number of articles and book chapters . He serves as secretary of academic affairs of El Colegio de San Luis and obtained his PhD from the Department of History at the University of California, San Diego, in 2011. Eduardo Flores Clair is a researcher at the Dirección de Estudios Históricos, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Mexico City). Having graduated in political sociology at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in 1980, he obtained his doctorate in history from the Universidad Iberoamericana in 1997; his dissertation was published as Minería, educación y sociedad: El Colegio de Minería, 1774–1821 (2000). He is also the author of El Banco de Avío Minero novohispano: Crédito, finanzas y deudores (2001), and numerous articles on economic and labor history as well as the history of mining in Mexico. Contributors 297 Will Fowler is professor of Latin American Studies at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of Mexico in the Age of Proposals, 1821–1853 (1998), Tornel and Santa Anna:TheWriter and the Caudillo (2000), Latin America since 1780 (2002; 2nd edition 2008), and Santa Anna of Mexico (2007). He has published numerous articles on the early national period and has edited eleven volumes on Mexican and Latin American political history, including the two-volume Gobernantes mexicanos (2008) and Forceful Negotiations (2010). Juan Ortiz Escamilla of the Universidad Veracruzana (Xalapa) was awarded his PhD in history by El Colegio de México (Mexico City). His research revolves around the impact the 1812 Cádiz Constitution and the experience of the 1810–21 war had on local governments, military development, and political practices in Mexico. Paired with his interest in the armed forces before, during and after the War of Independence, he has explored the regional response to these issues, focusing in particular on the states of Michoacán and Veracruz. He is the author of Guerra y gobierno : Los pueblos y la independencia de México (1997) and El Teatro de la guerra: Veracruz, 1750–1825 (2008). Erika Pani is a research professor at El Colegio de México in Mexico City, where she...