Contents
2 Villages, Landlords and Businessmen
3 Financing Mexican Government
4 Political Reconstruction: Before the War with the United States, 1836–1846
5 Political Reconstruction: During and After the War with the United States, 1846–1855
6 Persistent Pressure from the United States
Part Two: Responses and Reactions
7 Social and Ethnic Tensions in their Local Contexts
8 Conflict in the Sierra Gorda – Querétaro, Guanajuato, San Luis Potosí
9 The Struggle in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the State of Oaxaca, 1847–1853
Part Three: Reform and Frustration
10 The Revolution of Ayutla and the First Stages of the Reform, 1854–1856
12 The Federal Constitution and the Road to Disaster, February 1857–January 1858
13 The Civil War of the Reform, 1858–1861
14 The Continuation of the Reform and the Final Phase of the War, 1859–1860
15 The Liberals Return to Power, 1861: an Unresolved Dilemma