The End Of Catholic Mexico Causes And Consequences Of The Mexican Reforma 18551861 David Gilbert by David Gilbert 9780826506436, 9780826506443, 9780826506467, 0826506437, 0826506445, 0826506461 instant download after payment.

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