AViva MZxico! AViva la Independencia!

Celebrations of Mexico's Independence continue each year, on September 16, almost two hundred years after the struggle. Just as July 4th is celebrated in the United States, Independence Day in Mexico is also commemorated with parades, festivals, and patriotic speeches.

Viva Mexico! Viva la Independencia! examines the holiday, exploring how this most important public festival in the civic calendar has given Mexicans a rich tradition of national celebration that is part creation myth, part official pomp, and part popular merrymaking. The editors examine how Independence Day festivities have provided a medium for informal education, sketching on the canvas of the public sphere national values, glorifying specific historical events and individuals, and celebrating government plans and achievements.

Introduction: The Functions of Patriotic Ceremony in Mexico	p. ix
Images of Independence in the Nineteenth Century: The Grito de Dolores, History and Myth	p. 1
The Junta Patriotica and the Celebration of Independence in Mexico City, 1825-1855	p. 43
The First Independence Celebrations in San Luis Potosi, 1824-1847	p. 77
San Angel as the Site of National Festivals in the 1860s	p. 87
Conservatives Contest the Meaning of Independence, 1846-1855	p. 101
New Celebrations of Independence: Puebla (1869) and Mexico City (1883)	p. 131
The Capital Commemorates Independence at the Turn of the Century	p. 141
1910 Mexico City: Space and Nation in the City of the Centenario	p. 167
The 1921 Centennial Celebration of Mexico's Independence: State Building and Popular Negotiation	p. 199
Postrevolutionary Contexts for Independence Day: The "Problem" of Order and the Invention of Revolution Day, 1920s-1940s	p. 233
Suggested Readings	p. 249
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 251
Index	p. 253
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AViva MZxico! AViva la Independencia! Celebrations of September 16

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