Reconciling Modernity
Subtitle: Urban State Formation in 1940s Leon, Mexico
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: June 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780803233492
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Cultural studies; Social history; History; History - General History; History: World; Latin America - Mexico; History / Latin America; 20th century; Leon (Guanajuato, Mexico); Leâon (Guanajuato); Mexico; Politics and government; Social classes; Social conflict; Synarchism
Description: "Reconciling Modernity challenges the academic consensus of a simplistic Church-State reconciliation in post-revolutionary Mexico and reveals instead a cultural power struggle between entrenched elite factions, each intending to define Mexico's national identity. Using documents found in regional archives, Daniel Newcomer provides a new interpretation of how radically opposed conservative and revolutionary elites came to a political detente in the traditional Catholic stronghold of Leon, Guanajuato, during the 1940s."--Jacket.