Laying the Foundations, 1560–1840
by
Sean F. McEnroe
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
In an age of revolution, Mexico's creole leaders held aloft the Virgin of Guadalupe and brandished an Aztec eagle perched upon a European tricolor. Their new constitution proclaimed 'the Mexican nation is forever free and independent'. Yet the genealogy of this new nation is not easy to trace. Colonial...