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The first America. The Spanish Monarchy, Creole Patriots, and the Liberal State 1492–1867. By D. A. Brading. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xviii, 761. £55.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2010

Sabine Maccormack
Sabine Maccormack
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The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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The Historical Journal , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , September 1992 , pp. 753 - 755
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References

1 See for example Liss, Peggy K., Mexico under Spain, 1521–1536. Society and the origins nationality (Chicago, 1975)Google Scholar, a book that reaches far beyond the chronological limits of the title; Pagden, Anthony, Spanish imperialism and the political imagination. Studies in European and Ameriean social and political theory 1513–1830 (New Haven, 1990), and the remarkable essayGoogle ScholarMorse, Richard, ‘Claims of political tradition’, in his New world soundings. Culture and ideology in the Americas (Baltimore, 1989), pp. 95–130Google Scholar.

2 For an illuminating analysis of some of these issues in the thought of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier, see, along with Brading's ch. 26, Donghi, Tulio Halperin, ‘El letrado colonial como inventor de mitos rcvolucionarios: Fray Servando Teresa de Mier a traves sus escritos autobiograficos’, in De historia e hutoriadores. Homenaje a Jose Luis Romero (Mexico City, 1982), 113–43Google Scholar.

3 More might have been said about the Thomist dimension in Spanish American political thought, see Morse, Richard M., El esptjo de Prosper. Un tstudio de la diaieclica del nuevo mundo (Mexico City, 1982)Google Scholar.