Popular Politics and Rebellion in Mexico: Manuel Lozada and La Reforma, 1855-1876

The political conflict during Mexico's Reform era in the mid—nineteenth century was a visceral battle between ideologies and people from every economic and social class. As Popular Politics and Rebellion in Mexico develops the story of this struggle, the role of one key rebel, Manuel Lozada, comes into focus. The willingness of rural peasants to take up arms to defend the Catholic Church and a conservative political agenda explains the bitterness of the War of Reform and the resulting finan...