- 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
Managing the Feudal Remnant
Managing the Feudal Remnant
Alamán and the Duque (1824–1853)
- Chapter:
- (p.307) 11 Managing the Feudal Remnant
- Source:
- A Life Together
- Author(s):
Eric Van Young
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
For three decades Alamán acted as the Mexican agent, with wide powers, for the Sicilian nobleman, the Duke of Terranova y Monteleone, in the administration of the many and valuable properties remaining in the Marquesado del Valle de Oaxaca, the vast personal estate left to his heirs by Fernando Cortés, of whom the Duke was a lineal descendant. The estates included mortgages held on urban properties, scores of buildings in the capital and other cities, and rural properties, of which the most important was the sugar hacienda of Atlacomulco near Cuernavaca. While this earned Alamán a substantial income over the years, it also exposed him to almost constant political attack from liberals for his association with the putatively “feudal” holdings of a foreign landlord, the heir of the abhorred conqueror of the Mexican native peoples.
Keywords: Marquesado, Cortés, Atlacomulco, Terranova
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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