Catholic Nations: Spain and Spanish America in the Early Nineteenth Century

Alfredo Ávila is Researcher and Professor of History at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, and Visiting Scholar at El Colegio de México. His most recent books are Partidos, facciones y otras calamidades. Debates y propuestas en torno a los partidos políticos en México, siglo XIX, co-edited with Alicia Salmerón (2012), and Las declaraciones de independencia. Los textos fundamentales de las independencias americanas, co-edited with Jordana Dym and Erika Pani (2013). He is working on a book about the political reforms in Mexico, Central America and the Río de la Plata at the 1820s and 1830s.