The mexican governments persecution of the church by jean meyer with fast free shipping on every used book we have in. It would be easy to accuse meyer of piggybacking on the popularity of the recently released movie, for greater glory. The mexican peoples war for religious liberty jean meyer on. He has done extensive research on the cristero war and written books on the subject for the university of cambridge and the universidad. Largely ignored until recently even in mexico the war resulted from mexicos atheist constitution of 1917, subsequent antireligious legislation and fierce anticlerical persecution by the government of president plutarco elias calles, who came to power in 1924. We presented the utter variant of this ebook in djvu, epub, pdf, doc, txt formats. Plutarco elias calles, the mexican president 19241928, encouraged anticlerical sentiment different from his presidential predecessors, venustiano carranza 19171920 and. The caballeros, as the knights are known in spanishspeaking countries, attracted leaders in society, including doctors, lawyers and businessmen. Doctor jean meyer barth is a mexican historian and author of french origin. Entrada mas reciente entrada antigua pagina principal. General gorostieta no fue mason sino devoto catolico, dice. May 03, 2007 this is the amazing photo history of the cristiada. This is the amazing photo history of the cristiada. Jean meyer appears to be the go to source certainly, at least, for english readers for this, heretofore, rather overlooked episode of mexican history.
The mexican peoples war for religious liberty by jean meyer, phd square one publishers. Jean meyer weaves informative text with hundreds of photographs and illustrations to provide a unique perspective of this terrible period in mexicos history. Meyer earned his bachelor and master degrees at the sorbonne university. When a young french graduate student named jean meyer arrived in mexico in 1965 to write his doctoral thesis on the religious war known as the cristiada, the topic was virtually unknown to. The untold story of the knights during the cristiada.