The religion question—the place of the Church in a Catholic country after an anticlerical revolution—profoundly shaped the process of state formation in Mexico. From the end of the Cristero War in 192
The religion question---the place of the Church in a Catholic country after an anticlerical revolution---profoundly shaped the process of state formation in Mexico. From the end of the Cristero War in
Cardenas Compromised is a political and institutional history of Mexico’s urban and rural labor in the Yucatan region during the regime of Lazaro Cardenas from 1934 to 1940. Drawing on archival materi
Latin American history traditionally has been defined by larger-than-life heroes such as S!mon Bol!var, Emiliano Zapata, and Evita Per￠n. Recent scholarship, however, tends to emphasize social and cu
Forced Marches is a collection of innovative essays that analyze how the military experience molded Mexican citizens in the years between the initial war for independence in 1810 and the consolidation
Yucatan has been called “a world apart”—cut off from the rest of Mexico by geography and culture. Yet, despite its peripheral location, the region experienced substantial change in the decades after i
