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North America took its political shape in the crisis of the 1860s,
marked by Canadian Confederation, the U.S. Civil War, the
restoration of the Mexican Republic, and numerous wars and treaty
regimes conducted between these states and indigenous peoples. This
crisis wove together the three nation-states of modern North
America from a patchwork of contested polities. Remaking North
American Sovereignty brings together distinguished experts on the
histories of Canada, indigenous peoples, Mexico, and the United
States to re-evaluate this era of political transformation in light
of the global turn in nineteenth-century historiography. They
uncover the continental dimensions of the 1860s crisis that have
been obscured by historical traditions that confine these conflicts
within its national framework.
North America took its political shape in the crisis of the 1860s,
marked by Canadian Confederation, the U.S. Civil War, the
restoration of the Mexican Republic, and numerous wars and treaty
regimes conducted between these states and indigenous peoples. This
crisis wove together the three nation-states of modern North
America from a patchwork of contested polities. Remaking North
American Sovereignty brings together distinguished experts on the
histories of Canada, indigenous peoples, Mexico, and the United
States to re-evaluate this era of political transformation in light
of the global turn in nineteenth-century historiography. They
uncover the continental dimensions of the 1860s crisis that have
been obscured by historical traditions that confine these conflicts
within its national framework.
Mexico's Reforma, the mid-nineteenth-century liberal revolution,
decisively shaped the country by disestablishing the Catholic
Church, secularizing public affairs, and laying the foundations of
a truly national economy and culture. The Lawyer of the Church is
an examination of the Mexican clergy's response to the Reforma
through a study of the life and works of Bishop Clemente de Jesus
Munguia (1810-68), one of the most influential yet least-known
figures of the period. By analyzing how Munguia responded to
changing political and intellectual scenarios in defense of the
clergy's legal prerogatives and social role, Pablo Mijangos y
Gonzalez argues that the Catholic Church opposed the liberal
revolution not because of its supposed attachment to a bygone past
but rather because of its efforts to supersede colonial tradition
and refashion itself within a liberal yet confessional state. With
an eye on the international influences and dimensions of the
Mexican church-state conflict, The Lawyer of the Church also
explores how Mexican bishops gradually tightened their relationship
with the Holy See and simultaneously managed to incorporate the
papacy into their local affairs, thus paving the way for the
eventual "Romanization" of Mexican Catholicism during the later
decades of the century.
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