1821: The end of New Spain, dreams of an impossible Mexico

From 1808 to 1821, New Spain lived a revolution that transformed everything: the regime, the silver economy, social relations, political and religious cultures. This work explores the power, wealth, stability, and global importance of New Spain before 1810, the roots of the revolution breaking the regime in 1808, the social predations provoking the popular insurgencies of 1810 to 1820, and how the intersection of political and social conflicts that endured for a decade forever changed New Spain and the world making the dream of a Mexican empire, and the republican dreams that followed in search of a Mexican nation, impossible