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The Roots of Conservatism in Mexico: Catholicism, Society, and Politics in the Mixteca Baja, 1750-1962
Benjamin T. Smith
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Paperback. Num Pages: 488 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 676.
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 recounting this long tradition ... Read more
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 recounting this long tradition ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
488
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826351722
SKU
V9780826351722
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About Benjamin T. Smith
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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