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The End of Catholic Mexico : Causes and Consequences of the Mexican Reforma (1855-1861), Hardback Book

The End of Catholic Mexico : Causes and Consequences of the Mexican Reforma (1855-1861) Hardback

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In The End of Catholic Mexico: Causes and Consequences of the Mexican Reforma (1855-1861), historian David A.

Gilbert provides a new interpretation of one of the defining events of Mexican history: the Reforma.

During this period, Mexico transformed from a Catholic confessional state to a modern secular nation, sparking a three-year civil war in the process.

While past accounts of the Reforma have foregrounded its class dimensions and portrayed it as a liberal triumph over conservative elites, Gilbert instead argues that the Reforma was a religious war fueled two competing interpretations of the Catholic faith.

These competing interpretations, Gilbert contends, generated sharp disagreements about Mexico's future, which further polarized the country and led to a culture war centered on religion. Gilbert's fresh account of this pivotal moment in Mexican history will be of interest to scholars of Latin American religious history, nineteenth-century church history, and US historians of the antebellum republic.

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