Mexico City, 1808: Power, Sovereignty, and Silver in an Age of War and Revolution

321 Pages·2018·11.172 MB·English

by  John Tutino

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Mexico City, 1808
Power, Sovereignty,
and Silver in an Age of War
and Revolution
.
John Tutino
University of New Mexico Press \ Albuquerque
©2018 by the University of New Mexico Press
All rights reserved. Published 2018
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Tutino, John, 1947– author.
Title: Mexico City, 1808: power, sovereignty, and silver in an age of war
and revolution / John Tutino.
Description: First edition. | Albuquerque: University of New Mexico
Press, 2018. | Series: Dialogos series | Includes bibliographical references
and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2018006294 (print) | LCCN 2018028082 (e-book) |
ISBN 9780826360021 (e-book) | ISBN 9780826360007 (printed case: alk.
paper) | ISBN 9780826360014 (pbk.: alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Mexico City (Mexico)—Politics and government—19th
century. | Mexico City (Mexico)—Politics and government—18th
century. | Silver industry—Mexico—Mexico City—History—19th
century. | Silver industry—Mexico—Mexico City—History—18th
century. | Power (Social sciences)—Mexico—Mexico City—History—
19th century. | Power (Social sciences)—Mexico—Mexico City—History
—18th century. | Government, Resistance to—Mexico—Mexico City—
History—19th century. | Government, Resistance to—Mexico—Mexico
City—History—18th century.
Classification: LCC F1386.3 (e-book) | LCC F1386.3 T88 2018 (print) |
DDC 972/.53—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018006294
Cover illustration is courtesy of the Benson Latin American Collection,
University of Texas at Austin
Cover by Felicia Cedillos
For
Luis Fernando Granados,
who taught me about Mexico City,
and
Alfredo Ávila,
who taught me about the politics of popular sovereignty as
New Spain became Mexico

Contents
.
List of Illustrations
x
Preface: Pivotal Years and Historical Dialogues
xi
Terms of Analysis: New Spain in Spanish America
xix
Introduction
Imperial Crisis and Regime Transformation in the Silver Metropolis
1
PART I
City of Silver
Power and Social Order, 1760–1810
Chapter 1
From Mexica Capital to Silver Metropolis, 1350–1770
21
vii
viii contents
Chapter 2
Oligarchy
Power in the Capital of Silver Capitalism
35
Chapter 3
In the Shadows of Power
Oligarchs, Provincials, and Professionals
59
Chapter 4
Getting By
Life and Work in the Barrios
75
Chapter 5
Keys to the City
Stabilizing Power and Inequity
95
PART II
The Politics of Empire, 1765–1810
From Mediation to Revolution
Chapter 6
Time of Trial
Bourbon Reforms, Regional Risings, and Regime Restoration, 1765–1771
109
Chapter 7
Carrying On
War, Silver Capitalism, and Social Peace, 1770–1800
127
contents ix
Chapter 8
Toward Crisis
War, Revenue, Faction, and the Fall of the Monarchy, 1800–1808
149
Chapter 9
Summer of Politics, 1808
Contesting Power and Popular Sovereignties
171
Chapter 10
September Coup, 1808
Military Power and Imagined Revolutions
205
Chapter 11
The Fall
From Silver Capitalism to Social Revolution, 1808–1810
229
Conclusion
Popular Politics and Coercive Powers
Mexico and the World
249
Notes
257
Bibliography
279
Index
289