Mexico Conservative Ideology History Deep State Criollo Elitism CANTU 1st Ed HC

by Gastón García Cantú

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First edition

.no-subscribe { display: none} [contenteditable] { pointer-events: none; } El Pensamiento De La Reacción Mexicana; Historia Documental 1810-1962 by Gastón García Cantú Published by Empresas Editoriales S.A., México, D.F., 1965. Spanish Text. First Edition, limited edition of 3000, numbered copy #2162. Very good hardcover in good original dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text in Spanish, dj has chips & tears repaired with archival tape, now in archival mylar wrapper. 12mo, illustrated endpapers, 1022 pages. SPANISH TEXT EDITION. Gastón García Cantú, a pivotal intellectual historian of 20th-century Mexico, offers a monumental and controversial dissection of the nation's conservative undercurrents in this first edition. Rather than a chronicle of presidents and battles, this is a history of ideas, meticulously assembling documents and tracing the evolution of reactionary thought from the Wars of Independence through the post-revolutionary era. García Cantú argues that an enduring, powerful conservative ideology—rooted in colonialism, clericalism, and —persistently challenged and shaped Mexico's struggle for liberal, secular modernization. Published in 1965 during the height of PRI hegemony, the work was a bold critical endeavor, suggesting that the official revolutionary narrative had not fully vanquished these deep-seated forces. It remains a fundamental and indispensable text for understanding the ideological fractures that define Mexican political histor

• Publisher: Empresas Editoriales S.A.
• Year: 1962
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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