The Roots of Conservatism in Mexico
Catholicism, Society, and Politics in the Mixteca Baja, 1750-1962
The Roots of Conservatism is the first attempt to ask why over the past two centuries so many Mexican peasants have opted to ally with conservative groups rather than their radical counterparts. Blending socioeconomic history, cultural analysis, and political narrative, Smith's study begins with the late Bourbon period and moves through the early republic, the mid-nineteenth-century Reforma, the Porfiriato, and the Revolution, when the Mixtecs rejected Zapatista offers of land distribution, ending with the armed religious uprising known as the last Cristiada, a desperate Cold War bid to rid the region of impious communist governance. In recou…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8263-5173-9
- EAN: 9780826351739
- Produktnummer: 34255627
- Verlag: University of New Mexico Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 448 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'897 KB
Über den Autor
Benjamin T. Smith is an associate professor at Michigan State University. His first book, Pistoleros and Popular Movements, looked at the process of state formation in post-Revolutionary Oaxaca.
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