"This is a work of prodigious scholarship. . . . The tome is deeply learned with many references to anthropology, psychiatry, psychology, and sociology. . . . The book is judiciously written, superbly argued, and relentless. . . . More than any historian in recent memory, Van Young literally lets the people speak for themselves through the documents."--Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History"van Young has thoroughly examined and incorporated significant primary archival and secondary sources, from both in the United States and Mexico, in this superbly researched, well-written monograph of the causes of the rebellion in Mexico that resulted in independence. . . . The Other Rebellion offers important new insights and perspectives and would be especially useful for upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars interested in studying Mexico in the early nineteenth century."--History: Reviews of New Books

Part I Rebels: A Social Profile; Full-Face Portraits; Hard Times And Rebellion; Full-Face Portraits II - Love, Suggestability, Curiosity, Pressment; The Age Of Excuses - Rituals Of Confession And Pardon; Indians. Part II Leaders And Followers: Indian Notables; Local Cabecillas; A Village Delinquent - Chito Villagran; Priest And Parish; Loyalist Curates And Warrior Priests; The Social Construction Of Priestly Subversion And Rebellion; Four Clerical Cabecillas. Part III Popular Violence And Ideology: The Verbal Culture Of Internal War - Loose Talk, Rumour, Sedition, And Propaganda; Anatomy Of A Riot I - Atlacomulco, 1810; Anatomy Of A Riot II - The Dynamics Of Local Political Violence In New Spain, 1750-1820; Masked Messiahs And Truncated Utopias; Conclusion - The Other Rebellion In Comparative Perspective.