Celebrating Insurrection: The Commemoration and Representation of the Nineteenth-Century Mexican Pronunciamiento

Contents

Contents Preface | vii Acknowledgments | xiii Introduction: The Damned and the Venerated: The Memory, Commemoration, and Representation of the Nineteenth-Century Mexican Pronunciamiento | xvii Chronology of Main Events and Pronunciamientos, 1821–1910 | xliii 1. The Memory and Representation of Rafael del Riego’s Pronunciamiento in Constitutional New Spain and within the Iturbide Movement, 1820–1821 | 1 rodrigo moreno gutiérrez 2. The Damned Man with the Venerated Plan: The Complex Legacies of Agustín de Iturbide and the Iguala Plan | 28 richard a. warren 3. Refrescos, Iluminaciones, and Te Deums: Celebrating Pronunciamientos in Jalisco in 1823 and 1832 | 50 rosie doyle 4. The Political Life of Executed Pronunciados: The Representation and Memory of José Márquez and Joaquín Gárate’s 1830 Pronunciamiento of San Luis | 74 kerry mcdonald 5. Memory and Manipulation: The Lost Cause of the Santiago Imán Pronunciamiento | 93 shar a ali 6. Salvas, Cañonazos, y Repiques: Celebrating the Pronunciamiento during the U.S.-Mexican War | 114 pedro santoni 7. Contemporary Verdicts on the Pronunciamiento during the Early National Period | 152 melissa boyd 8. The Crumbling of a “Hero”: Ignacio Comonfort from Ayutla to Tacubaya | 176 antonia pi-suñer llorens 9. Porfirio Díaz and the Representations of the Second of April | 201 verónica zár ate toscano 10. Juan Bustamante’s Pronunciamiento and the Civic Speeches That Condemned It: San Luis Potosí, 1868–1869 | 228 flor de maría salazar mendoza 11. “As Empty a Piece of Gasconading Stuff as I Ever Read”: The Pronunciamiento through Foreign Eyes | 247 will fowler Bibliography | 273 Contributors | 299 ...