Roots of Conservatism in Mexico: Catholicism, Society, and Politics in the Mixteca Baja, 1750-1962

by Benjamin T. Smith

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826351727
• ISBN13: 9780826351722
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"