Matthew D. O'Hara

A Flock Divided: Race, Religion, and Politics in Mexico, 1749-1857

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Produktbeschreibung

Reveals how "modern" political communities developed from the milieu of Latin American colonialism and how religious thought and practice created Mexico's political culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780822346395
• ISBN-10: 0822346397
• Artikelnr.: 28032348

Autorenporträt

Matthew D. O’Hara is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: The Children of Rebekah 1
Part I. Institutions and Ideas
1. Geographies of Buildings, Bodies, and Souls 17
2. An Eighteenth-Century Great Debate 55
Part II. Reform and Reaction
3. Stone, Mortar, and Memory 91
4. Invisible Religion 123
Part III. Piety and Politics
5. Spiritual Capital 159
6. Miserables and Citizens 185
Conclusion. The Struggle of Jacob and Esau 221
Notes 239
Bibliography 281
Index 303