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Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana - Mexican general who tried to crush the Texas revolt and who lost battles to Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War (1795-1876)

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Santa Anna, Santa Ana

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En esta novela Serna muestra una rigurosa labor de investigacion sobre la vida de Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana en la que la ficcion y la fantasia se entretejen para dar paso a un personaje verosimil y complejo.

Enrique Serna y su mundo narrativo, entrevista

Lacking detailed regional studies, most historians continued to be influenced by partisan perspectives of writers such as Lucas Alaman who argued conservative-centralist views of the urban elites, and supported the regimes of Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana. While the available answers to many questions were unsatisfactory, most readers simply persevered and university lecturers in survey courses pressed forward to the Mexican American War, the Wars of the Reform and the French Intervention, or on to the regime of Porfirio Diaz.

Peasants, Politics, and the Formation of Mexico;s National State: Guerrero, 1800-1857

In the process, he eschews the tendency to lay blame for the crises on certain personalities such as Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana, and poses broad questions that will require later testing by field research in regional and national archieves.

Origins of Instability in Early Republican Mexico

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