Eric Van Young
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 117538 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Eric Van Young |
| NOMBRES | Eric |
| APELLIDO | Van Young |
| FIRMA | VAN YOUNG E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California San Diego |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 63 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 82 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
David Brading (1936-2024)
Flowers, Guns, and Money
The vast majority of Americans would not know that the lush red-and-green potted plant so ubiquitous at Christmastime, the poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima, also known as Poinsettia pulcherrima, cuetlaxochitl in Nahuatl, and flor de Nochebuena in Spanish) was introduced into the United States from its native Mexico by the US statesman Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779–1851), an important political figure of the early US republic. It is ironic, further…
Jaime E. Rodríguez O. (1940–2022)
Jaime Edmundo Rodríguez Ordóñez was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in 1940 and died in Los Angeles, California, on June 27, 2022. An elegant man of impeccable dress, the look and manners of a Spanish caballero, and great precision in speech, don Jaime was a figure to be reckoned with in any group because of his quiet assertion of his views and his vast knowledge of his chosen field.His father was Colonel Luis A. Rodríguez Sandoval, a military reform…
Liberalismo e independencia en la era de las revoluciones
Trained as a political scientist and holding an appointment in the Centro de Estudios Internacionales at El Colegio de México but working as a historian of political ideas and a self-described historiographer, Roberto Breña has given us a volume of 18 essays with much to chew on. The essays have been modified from the forms in which they first appeared over the last few years in online journals, conference proceedings, edited volumes published in…
A Life Together
A Life Together
A Life Together
Lucas Alamán (1792-1853) was arguably the greatest statesman and certainly the greatest historian of Mexico in the three decades or so following the country’s achievement of its independence from Spain (1821) after a tremendously violent and destructive decade-long rebellion against the colonial power. Dubbed “a Metternich among Indians” by one contemporary, he was a conservative modernizer rather than the ruthless reactionary he has been branded…
Life Together
Texas
This chapter is substantially devoted to the issue of Texas, beginning with a long passage on the overall problem of Texas. Minister Alamán pushed a law through Congress in 1830 aimed at choking off American immigration into Texas, but it proved to no avail as the colonists continued to come with their slaves, their Protestantism, and their very different political culture, setting up the conditions for their pulling away from Mexico, and eventua…
The New Cultural History Comes to Old Mexico
Adventures with Don Luquitas
What is our obligation, as biographers or historians, to the people we write about? I ask this question in the context of my own writing of a biography, a project in which I have been engaged for nearly 20 years, that is now, I thank God, drawing to a close. The subject of the book is Lucas Alamán, the nineteenth-century Mexican conservative statesman, historian, and entrepreneur. Born in 1792, he died in 1853, a few months into the last governme…
The Brink of Freedom
De una memoria truncada a una historia majestuosa
En el artículo se ofrecen algunas reflexiones acerca de la escritura de biografías. Se utiliza la vida de Lucas Alamán, el gran estadista conservador e historiador del siglo xix, como estudio de caso. Se propone la posibilidad de echar mucha luz sobre la vida, las obras históricas y la postura política de Alamán mediante un análisis de su memoria autobiográfica, escrita durante la década de 1830 y nunca publicada. En este documento se revela la p…
The Tupac Amaru Rebellion
As the Spanish colonial regime approached its end in the Americas, two great political upheavals shadowed the thinking of many among the independence- or autonomy-minded Creole elite there, as well
Biography of a Hacienda
For a work as manifestly well-intentioned and nicely written as this historical study of a hacienda in the state of Puebla, Mexico during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it would seem
Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato. Industry and Revolution
Independence and Nationalism in the Americas
The independence movements in the Americas, 1776–1825, were not the culmination of rising national consciousness within the colonies. Nor did the wars for independence and subsequent struggles to establish viable national constitutions and governments give birth immediately to coherent, durable national identities. Throughout the Americas, the case for independence typically drew on Enlightenment principles of natural rights and on conflict of in…
Making a New World
John Tutino has written a highly ambitious and provocative book to which it is impossible to do justice, either in praise or critical encounter, in a short review. The book has much to tell us about Mexican colonial and world history, even if it does not manage entirely to convince in all of its vast claims (“vast” being one of the author’s favorite words, along with “soaring,” “complex,” and “diverse,” so that descriptors and superlatives someti…
Paul J. Vanderwood (1929–2011)
Writing Mexican History
This collection brings together a group of important and influential essays on Mexican and historiography by Eric Van Young, a leading scholar in the field. The essays, several of which appear here in English for the first time, are primarily historiographical; that is, they address the ways in which separate historical literatures have developed over time. They cover a wide range of topics: the historiography of the colonial and nineteenth-centu…
Paul J. Vanderwood—An Obituary and Remembrance
Research Article| February 01 2012 Paul J. Vanderwood—An Obituary and Remembrance Eric Van Young Eric Van Young Eric Van Young (Ph.D., UC Berkeley 1978) is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego, where he has taught since 1983. He has chaired his department and was Interim Dean of Arts and Humanities during 2007 and 2008. His most recent major published work, The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence, Ideology, …
Bandits, Elvis, and Other Mystics
Paul Vanderwood, Professor Emeritus of History at San Diego State University, died in San Diego onOctober 10, 2011, at the age of 82. A distinguished and innovative historian of modern Mexico, Vanderwood authored or co-authored several books, mostly dealing with the political, social, and cultural history of Mexico between about 1860 and the mid-twentieth century. The four works for which he is best known are Disorder and Progress (1982), The Pow…
Rural History
This article looks at the environment where most Latin Americans lived until the middle of the twentieth century. Reflecting this basic fact, the region's historiography boasts a long tradition of studies of agrarian movements, haciendas-with a once fiery debate about the putative feudal or capitalist nature of these large landed estates, plantations, estancias, and ejidos (or land-owning Indian villages)-and the peasantry. Both this rich histori…
Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic
Jeremy Adelman, Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic (2006), x + 489 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, $39.95). Since the wide diffusion some years ago in studies of modern nati
National Narratives in Mexico
Enrique Florescano, arguably the dean of living historians in Mexico and one of the most influential scholars of the twentieth century in the field of Mexican history, has written a wide-ranging, thoughtful, if ultimately rather quirky book about the historiography of the country by Mexicans, recognizably linked to several of his previous works on indigenous myth complexes and forms of collective memory. His central objects are “interpretations o…
The New Cultural History Comes to Old Mexico
The Other Rebellion
Part I Rebels: A Social Profile Full-Face Portraits Hard Times And Rebellion Full-Face Portraits II - Love, Suggestability, Curiosity, Pressment The Age Of Excuses - Rituals Of Confession And Pardon Indians. Part II Leaders And Followers: Indian Notables Local Cabecillas A Village Delinquent - Chito Villagran Priest And Parish Loyalist Curates And Warrior Priests The Social Construction Of Priestly Subversion And Rebellion Four Clerical Cabecilla…
Conflict and Solidarity in Indian Village Life
IN describing the social context of mid-nineteenth-century Bonapartist politics, Karl Marx likened the French smallholding peasantry to a sack of potatoes a homologous magnitude lacking internal differentiation or political consciousness. A somewhat similar view until fairly recently has characterized the attitude of many writers toward Latin American peasantries, which have been seen as being historically uniform and static social groups.' This …
Two Decades of Anglophone Historical Writing on Colonial Mexico
Research on colonial Mexico continues to be one of the most important sub- fields in the history of Latin America in the United States, but also enjoys considerable attention in Canada and Britain. Over the last twenty-five years or so the approach of English-speaking scholars to colonial Mexican history has changed perceptibly. The rise of cultural history, ethnohistory, and subaltern history, for example, are all fairly obvious trends, even if …
Islands in the Storm
Recent Anglophone Scholarship on Mexico and Central America in the Age of Revolution (1750-1850)
S OME years ago, while I was doing graduate work at Berkeley, a fellow Latin Americanist graduate student, himself in the process of changing fields to European intellectual history, said to me: Gee-it seems all the good people are getting out of Latin American I suspect that many people in our field would not agree with my friend's summary judgment. Certainly much of the body of literature I will briefly discuss in this article gives the lie to …
The Brink of Freedom
The Andean Past
Millennium on the Northern Marches
In September of 1810, with a sudden flash of violent rebellion (preceded by months and years of salon conspiracies), the white native-born provincial elite of New Spain began the protracted and painful process of winning political independence from Spain. Although by about 1816 much of the country had been pacified by royal arms, pockets of rebellion continued to smolder and flare throughout the following years. The birth of modern Mexico itself …
Beyond the Hacienda
Commentary| January 01 2003 Beyond the Hacienda: Agrarian Relations and Socioeconomic Change in Rural Mesoamerica Eric Van Young Eric Van Young Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (1): 231–245. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-50-1-231 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Eric Van Young; Beyond the Hacienda: Agrarian Relations and Socioeconomic Change in Rural Mesoa…
Urban Market and Hinterland
Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic
Jeremy Adelman, Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic (2006), x + 489 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, $39.95). Since the wide diffusion some years ago in studies of modern nati
To See Someone Not Seeing
This article examines how historians have studied the political actions of Mexican peasants, arguing that they have often imposed their own frameworks and assumptions onto the evidence. Van Young critiques the tendency to view peasant politics through the lens of modernization theory or Marxist class analysis, suggesting that these approaches obscure the complex and often contradictory motivations of rural communities. He advocates for a more nua…
The Cuautla Lazarus
Aztec Warfare
Urban Market and Hinterland
Hacienda and Market in Eighteenth-Century Mexico
Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction to the 25th Anniversary Edition Chapter 3 Introduction Part 4 Part I. The Human and Natural Environment Chapter 5 Chapter 1. The Guadalajara Region in Time and Space Chapter 6 Chapter 2. Demographic Change-Rural and Urban Part 7 Part II. Guadalajara as a Market: Urban Demand and Public Policy Chapter 8 Chapter 3. Meat Chapter 9 Chapter 4. Wheat Chapter 10 Chapter 5. Maize Part 11 Part III. The Flowering o…
Mexico
México
Mexican Rural History Since Chevalier
Intellectual disciplines, very much like human beings, have life cycles. They are conceived and born, they progress through childhood, adolescence, and youth, they reach maturity, they enter old age, and some even die. Even if in the present case the simile is a grandiose one, and if the field of Mexican rural history can hardly lay claim to the status of being a distinct intellectual discipline, the main point nonetheless holds. After a long per…
Conflict and Solidarity in Indian Village Life
IN describing the social context of mid-nineteenth-century Bonapartist politics, Karl Marx likened the French smallholding peasantry to a sack of potatoes a homologous magnitude lacking internal differentiation or political consciousness. A somewhat similar view until fairly recently has characterized the attitude of many writers toward Latin American peasantries, which have been seen as being historically uniform and static social groups.' This …
Colonial Entrepreneurs
Credit and Socioeconomic Change in Colonial Mexico
Man, Land, and Water in Mexico and the Hispanic Southwest
Book Review| July 01 1985 Man, Land, and Water in Mexico and the Hispanic Southwest La formación de la hacienda en la época colonial: El uso de la tierra y el aguaGisela von WobeserWater in the Hispanic Southwest: A Social and Legal HistoryMichael C. MeyerMan, Land, and Water: Mexico's Farmlands Irrigation Policies, 1885-1911Clifton R. Kroeber Eric Van Young Eric Van Young Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar …
Guadalajara a la consumación de la independencia
Haciendo Pueblo
Recent Anglophone Scholarship on Mexico and Central America in the Age of Revolution (1750-1850)
S OME years ago, while I was doing graduate work at Berkeley, a fellow Latin Americanist graduate student, himself in the process of changing fields to European intellectual history, said to me: Gee-it seems all the good people are getting out of Latin American I suspect that many people in our field would not agree with my friend's summary judgment. Certainly much of the body of literature I will briefly discuss in this article gives the lie to …
The Andean Past
Millennium on the Northern Marches
In September of 1810, with a sudden flash of violent rebellion (preceded by months and years of salon conspiracies), the white native-born provincial elite of New Spain began the protracted and painful process of winning political independence from Spain. Although by about 1816 much of the country had been pacified by royal arms, pockets of rebellion continued to smolder and flare throughout the following years. The birth of modern Mexico itself …
Islands in the Storm
From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico
Aztec Warfare
To See Someone Not Seeing
This article examines how historians have studied the political actions of Mexican peasants, arguing that they have often imposed their own frameworks and assumptions onto the evidence. Van Young critiques the tendency to view peasant politics through the lens of modernization theory or Marxist class analysis, suggesting that these approaches obscure the complex and often contradictory motivations of rural communities. He advocates for a more nua…
Endangered Cultures
Endangered Cultures
Essays on the Price History of Eighteenth-Century Latin America
The Cuautla Lazarus
Agrarian Rebellion and Defense of Community
Journal Article Agrarian Rebellion and Defense of Community: Meaning and Collective Violence in Late Colonial and Independence-Era Mexico Get access Eric Van Young Eric Van Young Department of History, University of California, San Diego, LaJolla, CA 92093-0104 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 27, Issue 2, Winter 1993, Pages 245–269, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/27.2.245 Pub…
Bartolome de Las Casas
Bartolomé de Las Casas
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