Between Freedom and Privileges: Elite, elections, and citizenship in the Querétaro of the first half of the 19th century
This paper analyzes the changes and continuities of political activity in the State of Querétaroafter the crisis of the Spanish Empire in 1810. It particularly studies the role played by the local elite within the general process of construction of the MexicanState. During the first decades of the 1...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2011 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Historia Mexicana |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:oai.historiamexicana.colmex.mx:article/263 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/index.php/RHM/article/view/263 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Querétaro elite government elections 19th Century élite gobierno elecciones siglo XIX |
| Sumario: | This paper analyzes the changes and continuities of political activity in the State of Querétaroafter the crisis of the Spanish Empire in 1810. It particularly studies the role played by the local elite within the general process of construction of the MexicanState. During the first decades of the 19th century, the Queretan elite endowed its territory with a new political structure within a liberal context. Elections and citizenship were some of the issues concerning this elite composed by landowners, overseers, important merchants, and miners. We approach the political process by studying the political behavior of a number of representative families of the elite, in this case: the López de Ecalas, the Acevedos, the Fernández de Jáureguis, and the Samaniegos. Moreover, this piece of research seeks to establish which degree of cohesion and old colonial privileges of the group were maintained in spite of the new political scene of the 19th century. |
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