He is also writing a synoptic/interpretive history of Mexico, 1750-1850, under contract to Rowman and Littlefield, Publishers. Research on Alamán continues in Mexican archives and other repositories (Carso, the Archivo General de la Nación, Benson Latin American Collection-UT Austin, etc.) and the writing is well advanced. His major current research project is a biography of Lucas Alamán (1792 - 1853), one of the great statesmen and public intellectuals of 19th-century Mexico and Latin America, arguably Mexico's greatest 19th-century historian and the architect of Mexican conservatism, as well as one of the great early promoters of the country's modernization and industrialization. In the mid-1980s his interest turned to the history of popular groups in the Mexican independence struggle (1810 - 1821), on which he published a book in 2001. History Department Governance and PoliciesĪ historian of colonial Mexico by training, Eric Van Young has written on rural economic history (especially the history of haciendas) and regions in Mexico.Burke Lectureship on Religion & Society.Nondiscrimination and Affirmative Action Policy.
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