The Background of the Revolution for Mexican Independence

512 pages with frontispiece, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. From the library of Professor Donald E Worcester. First edition. This volume discloses no important new factors in the situation which led up to the Mexican movement for independence, but provides abundant and hitherto unused document to attest the existence factors that have already recognized. Donald E. Worcester (1915-2003) was an American historian who specialized in Southwestern United States and Latin American history. He was president of the Western History Association from 1974-1975. Worcester graduated from Bard College in 1939. He received an M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1941. He then served in the US Naval Reserve in World War II. He received a PhD. from Berkeley in 1947. From 1947 until 1963 he was a professor at the University of Florida. He then was a professor at Texas Christian University and history department chair. From 1960 until 1965 he was managing editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review. Worcester's view that history is made of complexities, not dualities, is seen as foundational for much of the understanding by later scholars of Southwest United States history.Condition: Corners bumped, some pencil marginalia, spine ends and corners moderately rubbed, Worcester's name to front end paper else a very good copy.