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Title

  • History of the Revolution in New Spain.

Other Title

  • Historia de la Revolución de Nueva España

Summary

  • Fray Servando Teresa de Mier was born in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico in 1763. He entered the Dominican order at age 16, studied philosophy and theology, and obtained a doctorate at age 27. Sentenced to exile in Spain after a sermon deemed provocative, Mier was imprisoned and escaped several times. He worked with Simón Rodríguez, a future mentor to Simón Bolívar, in France where he was later involved in hostilities against Napoleon. Historia de la Revolución de Nueva España (History of the revolution in New Spain), published in London in 1813 under the pseudonym José Guerra, is his most representative work and reflects the liberal ideals he had absorbed in France and Britain. Mier gained a reputation as an outstanding scholar, an independent and progressive thinker, and an excellent orator. The revolutionary movement for independence of 1810 inspired Mier to develop this comprehensive defense of Mexican independence. He argued that the legal and juridical basis of New Spain's independence was the "social pact" established between the king of Spain and his subjects in the Americas shortly after the Spanish arrived on the continent. The Spanish lands in the New World had a constitution and fundamental laws based on this social pact, which meant that these territories were not colonies, but separate realms federated with Spain through the person of the king. The fact that the Spanish crown had not in practice complied with these fundamental laws did not negate their legal validity or historical importance. The relationship between Spain and its subjects in the Americas was based on this social pact, which could not be modified without the consent of those subjects. Mier further argued that God had separated America and Europe by an ocean and that the native peoples of the Americas had different interests from the people of Spain, which negated any Spanish right to direct rule over the Americas.

Names

  • Mier Noriega y Guerra, José Servando Teresa de, 1763-1827 Author.

Created / Published

  • London : Guillermo Glindon, 1813.

Headings

  • -  Mexico
  • -  1810 to 1813
  • -  Autonomy
  • -  Mexican War of Independence
  • -  New Spain
  • -  Politics and government
  • -  Spain--Colonies

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 2 volumes (778, 60 pages) ; 22 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon.
  • -  Content in Spanish.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021666793

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Chicago citation style:

Mier Noriega Y Guerra, José Servando Teresa De, Author. History of the Revolution in New Spain. London: Guillermo Glindon, 1813. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666793/.

APA citation style:

Mier Noriega Y Guerra, J. S. T. D. (1813) History of the Revolution in New Spain. London: Guillermo Glindon. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666793/.

MLA citation style:

Mier Noriega Y Guerra, José Servando Teresa De, Author. History of the Revolution in New Spain. London: Guillermo Glindon, 1813. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021666793/>.