Malcontents, rebels, and pronunciados : the politics of insurrection in nineteenth-century Mexico / edited and with an introduction by Will Fowler.

Includes bibliographical references.

The compass points of unrest: pronunciamientos from within, without, above, and below in southeast Mexico, 1821-1876 / Terry Rugeley -- The rise and fall of a regional strongman: Felipe de la Garza's pronunciamiento of 1822 / Catherine Andrews -- Veracruz, the determining region: military pronunciamientos in Mexico, 1821-1843 / Juan Ortiz Escamilla -- The clergy and how it responded to calls for rebellion before the mid-nineteenth century / Anne Staples -- José Ramón García Ugarte: patriot, federalist, or malcontent? / Linda Arnold -- Ponciano Arriaga and Mariano Ávila's intellectual backing of the 14 April 1837 pronunciamiento of San Luis Potosí / Sergio A. Cañedo Gamboa -- Ayuntamientos and pronunciamientos during the nineteenth century: examples from Tlaxcala between independence and the Reform War / Raymond Buve -- The end of the "Catholic nation": reform and reaction in Puebla, 1854-1856 / Guy Thomson -- In search of power: the pronunciamientos of General Mariano Paredes y Arrillaga / Josefina Zoraida Vazquez -- The pronunciamientos of Antonio López de Santa Anna, 1821-1867 / Will Fowler -- Intervention and empire: politics as usual? / Erika Pani -- A socialist pronunciamiento: Julio López Chávez's Uprising of 1868 / Eduardo Flores Clair.