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Book SynopsisIn The 1624 Tumult of Mexico in Perspective Angela Ballone offers, for the first time, a comprehensive study of an understudied period of Mexican early modern history. By looking at the mandates of three viceroys who, to varying degrees, participated in the events surrounding the Tumult, the book discusses royal authority from a transatlantic perspective that encompasses both sides of the Iberian Atlantic. Considering the similarities and tensions that coexisted in the Iberian Atlantic, Ballone offers a thorough reassessment of current historiography on the Tumult proving that, despite the conflicts and arguments underlying the disturbances, there was never any intention to do away with the king’s authority in New Spain.
Trade Review"What stood at the centre of this processes, indeed what made it possible for local power struggles to be resolved, was a shared understanding of the principles of law, power, and authority which bound the early modern Spanish world together and which, as Ballone demonstrates, were fundamentally the same on both sides of the Atlantic." - Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, in: The International Journal of Maritime History 31(2) (June 2019) [https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ijh] “Superando la narrativa de las historias nacionales, Ballone apuesta por un enfoque “atlántico” para estudiar el tumulto de 1624. Así, la autora concibe este conflicto no como algo restringido a la política interna del virreinato de la Nueva España, sino como un fenómeno cuyas causas y repercusiones deben ser ubicadas en ambos lados del Océano Atlántico, un espacio que es entendido más en términos de continuidad que de ruptura o separación.” - Francisco Quijano, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México – UNAM (Mexico), in: Los Reinos de las Indias en el Nuevo Mundo (blog), 22 January 2019 [https://losreinosdelasindias.hypotheses.org/] “La autora sugiere de un modo convincente que la solución del conflicto, - y los radicales cambios de postura de la corona - se explican tanto por la evolución de las relaciones de poder en Madrid, y por los imperativos de la política extranjera de España, como por el análisis que ella hace de la situación local. (...) Reexaminando la crisis mexicana de 1624, Ballone logra innovar. Poniendo a debate la noción de autoridad monárquica mediante el análisis de su ejercicio concreto, apropiándose de los objetos y de las herramientas de la historia de las redes y de los de la historia atlántica, la autora logra abrir nuevas perspectivas.” - Pierre Ragon, Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre (France), in: Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos (blog), 17 December 2018 [https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/74030]. "In the finest tradition of Atlantic history, Angela Ballone’s monograph about the 1624 tumult of Mexico City brings us a broader understanding of how royal authority was made in New Spain and Spanish America". Gibran Bautista y Lugo, in Fifteenth–Seventeenth Centuries.
Table of ContentsGeneral Editor’s Foreword Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Transcription System The Tumult in Brief Introduction The Scale of the Mexican Disturbances Royal Authority as a Tool of Integration in the Iberian Atlantic Historiographical Approaches to the Tumult of 1624 Rethinking the Tumult in Perspective 1 Theatre of the Disturbances Windows onto the Iberian Atlantic World Metropolis of the New World The Composite Nature of Mexican Urban Population The Broad Urban Scenario Royal Authority in Flesh and Blood 2 Pre-Dating the Tumult The Mexican Audiencia at the Time of Guadalcazar Guadalcazar: el Buen Rey or a Despotic Viceroy? Historiography on Guadalcazar’s Mandates From Mexico to Lima The Logistics of Communication in the Iberian Atlantic 3 A Viceroy in an Age of Decline Royal Appointment by Philip III Gelves’s First Entry in Mexico City First Impressions in the New World Positive Feedback to the Council Reforming Local Custom and Patronising Municipal Institutions Supervising the Administration of Justice The First Arrest of Oidor Vergara Gaviria Old World Casuistry and New Instructions from Spain 4 The Two Heads of the Viceroyalty The Administration of the Faith: A Sensitive Topic Idyll between Archbishop and Viceroy Deterioration of the Varaez Case Two Majesties in Conflict Juntas in Spanish America Authority from Theory to Practice The Cathedral of Mexico and the Scale of Conflicts New Year and the Eve of the Tumult The Beginning of the End Reactions to the Exile 5 Storming the Viceregal Palace Royal Authority Performed in the Mexican Zócalo The King Arrested and the Pope Exiled Sacred Objects in the Battlefield A Heretic Viceroy in Mexico City? ‘Long Live to the King and Death to Heretics!’ The Insurgents’ Requests From Fire to Firearms The Regency The Viceroy is Missing The Tumult is Over Who were These Insurgents Anyway? Illustrations The Long Road to Resolution 6 The Day After Comuneros of New Spain? The Pillage of the Palace ‘No God, nor King, nor Judges!’ The Mexican Delegation The Viceroy Besieged Justice and Power Performed by the Audiencia Sparkling the Transatlantic Debate A New Viceroy in an Age of Crisis Restoration of Viceregal Authority Two Viceroys, Two Schools of Politics The Archbishop of Mexico in Europe 7 Tools of Control from the Metropolitan Court Preparations for the General Inspection The Beginning of the Inspection Gelves’s Judicial Examination Viceroys’ Authority above Everything Else The Second Arrest of Oidor Vergara Gaviria Mexico City under Pressure Again The End of Gelves’s Juicio de Residencia (in Mexico) Unsettling Metropolitan Considerations about the Inspection 8 From the Inspection to the General Pardon Another Extraordinary Junta at the Court of Philip IV The Mexican Pardon in Perspective The New Archbishop of Mexico Restoration of Religious Authority The Edict of the Pardon The New Inspection Different Interpretations of the Pardon More Tensions in Mexico City The Resilience of the Gelvista Party 9 Metropolitan Déjà Vu Two Heads in Opposition, Again ‘There is Only One Viceroy in New Spain!’ Assessing the Junta del Tumulto de México The Members of the Junta The Hidden ‘Life’ of the Junta del Tumulto An Ongoing Discussion outside the Junta Rethinking Metropolitan Perceptions of Mexican Politics The Viceroys’ Sentences Conclusions Appendix: A Fructibus Eorum Cognoscentis Eos (México, 1629) Glossary Select Bibliography Index
