List of Illustrations 1. Origins, Context, Historiography 2. Cristero Battle Fronts 3. Cristero Home Fronts 4. Government Battle Fronts 5. Government Home Fronts 6. Legacy, Memory and Conclusion Bibliography Index
An exploration of the role of the key central-western state of Zacatecas in the Mexican Cristero Rebellion (1926-1929).
Mark Lawrence is Lecturer in History at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author of Spain’s First Carlist War, 1833-40 (2014), which was named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title in 2018.
This is the first book to take a New Military History approach to
Mexico’s cristero rebellion and to use concepts such as
asymmetrical warfare and Kalyvas’s “logic of violence” to theorize
events on the ground. The book also traces life on the “home front”
in unusual depth, showing how people on both the near and far edges
of battle in Zacatecas (the book’s regional focus) were affected by
it. The result is an integral, powerfully experiential history of
what it meant to live through the rebellion. Mark Lawrence reminds
us, above all, that the Cristiada was a war, one that exacted a
terrible cost in blood and treasure from the society in which it
took place.
*Matthew Butler, Associate Professor of History, University of
Texas at Austin, USA*
Mark Lawrence reminds us of the persistence of local memory in
Zacatecasv ... His much needed military analysis of the Cristero
War will engage and instruct scholars of west-central Mexico as
well as military historians trying to understand why a seemingly
minor religious war still resonates to this day.
*Michigan War Studies Review*
This book assembles a very useful selection of introductions to
counterinsurgency relocation, including some (notably such those in
Cuba, South Africa, and Vietnam) which are excellent stand-alone
summaries.
*Journal of Contemporary History*
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