The Roots of Conservatism is the first attempt to ask why over
the past two centuries so many Mexican peasants have opted to ally
with conservative groups rather than their radical counterparts.
Blending socioeconomic history, cultural analysis, and political
narrative, Smith's study begins with the late Bourbon period and
moves through the early republic, the mid-nineteenth-century
Reforma, the Porfiriato, and the Revolution, when the Mixtecs
rejected Zapatista offers of land distribution, ending with the
armed religious uprising known as the "last Cristiada," a desperate
Cold War bid to rid the region of impious "communist" governance.
In recounting this long tradition of regional conservatism, Smith
emphasizes the influence of religious belief, church ritual, and
lay-clerical relations both on social relations and on political
affiliation. He posits that many Mexican peasants embraced
provincial conservatism, a variant of elite or metropolitan
conservatism, which not only comprised ideas on property,
hierarchy, and the state, but also the overwhelming import of the
church to maintaining this system.
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