Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I Youth
6. 1 • An Old and Distinguished Family 13
7. 2 • A Silver-Plated Youth (1792–1815) 30
8. 3 • Years of Pilgrimage, First Steps in Politics, and a Betrothal (1816–1823) 65
9. Part II The Statesman Emerges
10. 4 • The Spanish Cortes and a Final Sojourn in Paris (1821–1822) 85
11. 5 • Brothers 123
12. Part III Into the Maelstrom (1823–1825)
13. 6 • The Meanings of Anarchy 139
14. 7 • Domestic Tranquility 188
15. 8 • Diplomacy 215
16. 9 • The Poinsett Saga 232
17. Part IV Making Money
18. 10 • Shafted The United Mexican Mining Association (1824–1830) 255
19. 11 • Managing the Feudal Remnant Alamán and the Duque (1824–1853) 307
20. Part V High Tide of Power, Fall, and Internal Exile(1830–1834)
21. 12 • An Ordered and Prosperous Republic 355
22. 13 • Texas 410
23. 14 • The Banco de Avío 442
24. 15 • The War of the South and the Death of Guerrero 465
25. 16 • The Reckoning 483
26. 17 • Weaving Disaster Cocolapan (1836–1843) 521
27. Part VI Alamánat Midlife, Brief Return to Power, Last Days(1835–1853)
28. 18 • Politics and Family 551
29. 19 • Texas, Santa Anna, and War 569
30. 20 • The Monarchist Plot and the US Invasion 592
31. 21 • City, Congress, Wealth, Health 611
32. 22 • Santa Anna Returns, Alamán Exits 632
33. Part VII Lucas Alamán the Historian
34. 23 • Getting the Historia Written 651
35. 24 • What Is in the Historia de Méjico? 680
36. Epilogue: On Decolonization and Modernization 707
37. Notes 717
38. Bibliography 787
39. Index 819