- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
1 An Old and Distinguished Family -
2 A Silver-Plated Youth (1792–1815) -
3 Years of Pilgrimage, First Steps in Politics, and a Betrothal (1816–1823) -
4 The Spanish Cortes and a Final Sojourn in Paris (1821–1822) -
5 Brothers -
6 The Meanings of Anarchy -
7 Domestic Tranquility -
8 Diplomacy -
9 The Poinsett Saga -
10 Shafted -
11 Managing the Feudal Remnant -
12 An Ordered and Prosperous Republic -
13 Texas -
14 The Banco de Avío -
15 The War of the South and the Death of Guerrero -
16 The Reckoning -
17 Weaving Disaster -
18 Politics and Family -
19 Texas, Santa Anna, and War -
20 The Monarchist Plot and the US Invasion -
21 City, Congress, Wealth, Health -
22 Santa Anna Returns, Alamán Exits -
23 Getting the Historia Written -
24 What Is in the Historia de Méjico? - Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Brothers
Brothers
- Chapter:
- (p.123) 5 Brothers
- Source:
- A Life Together
- Author(s):
Eric Van Young
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter traces the life and career of Alamán’s half-brother, his elder by twenty years, the child of his mother’s first marriage. This was the priest Juan Bautista Arechederreta (1771-1836), who rose to occupy several high posts in the Mexican Catholic Church, including a canonry in the Mexico City cathedral. The brothers were reasonably close (if never intimates) after an 1804 family reconciliation over inheritance issues. Arechederreta probably helped his younger half-brother along professionally, almost certainly quashing an Inquisition inquiry about the young Alamán’s heterodox reading habits. The priest kept a journal during much of the insurgency, a major source of material for his younger brother’s great historical work of 1848-1852, and was something of a scholar in his own right.
Keywords: Church, Insurgency, Inquisition
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
1 An Old and Distinguished Family -
2 A Silver-Plated Youth (1792–1815) -
3 Years of Pilgrimage, First Steps in Politics, and a Betrothal (1816–1823) -
4 The Spanish Cortes and a Final Sojourn in Paris (1821–1822) -
5 Brothers -
6 The Meanings of Anarchy -
7 Domestic Tranquility -
8 Diplomacy -
9 The Poinsett Saga -
10 Shafted -
11 Managing the Feudal Remnant -
12 An Ordered and Prosperous Republic -
13 Texas -
14 The Banco de Avío -
15 The War of the South and the Death of Guerrero -
16 The Reckoning -
17 Weaving Disaster -
18 Politics and Family -
19 Texas, Santa Anna, and War -
20 The Monarchist Plot and the US Invasion -
21 City, Congress, Wealth, Health -
22 Santa Anna Returns, Alamán Exits -
23 Getting the Historia Written -
24 What Is in the Historia de Méjico? - Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
