In
The End of Catholic Mexico, historian David Gilbert provides a new interpretation of one of the defining events of Mexican history: the Reforma. During this period, Mexico was transformed from a Catholic confessional state into a modern secular nation, sparking a three-year civil war in the process. While past accounts have portrayed the Reforma as a political contest, ending with a liberal triumph over conservative elites, Gilbert argues that it was a much broader culture war centered on religion. This dynamic, he contends, explains why the resulting conflict was more violent and the outcome more extreme than other similar contests during the nineteenth century.
Gilbert’s fresh account of this pivotal moment in Mexican history will be of interest to scholars of postindependence Mexico, Latin American religious history, nineteenth-century church history, and US historians of the antebellum republic.
Innehållsförteckning
Introduction: The Reforma as Culture War
Chapter 1. The Road to the Reforma
Chapter 2. The Radicalization of the 1854 Revolution
Chapter 3.
La Cruz and the Formation of a Catholic Reaction
Chapter 4. Resistance and Retribution (1856)
Chapter 5. Debating the Religious Future of the Nation
Chapter 6. The Constitutional Crisis of 1857
Chapter 7. The War of the Reforma (1858–1860)
Chapter 8. The End of Catholic Mexico
Bibliography
Notes
Index
Om författaren
David Gilbert is a professor of history at Clayton State University.
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