Mexican Exodus : Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War, Paperba...

Description: Mexican Exodus : Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War, Paperback by Young, Julia G., ISBN 0190937335, ISBN-13 9780190937331, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In the summer of 1926, an army of Mexican Catholics launched a war against their government. Bearing aloft the banners of Christ the King and the Virgin of Guadalupe, they equipped themselves not only with guns, but also with scapulars, rosaries, prayers, and religious visions. These soldiers
were called cristeros, and the war they fought, which would continue until the mid-1930s, is known as la Cristiada, or the Cristero war. The most intense fighting occurred in Mexicos west-central states, especially Jalisco, Guanajuato, and Michoacn. For this reason, scholars have generally
regarded the war as a regional event, albeit one with national implications. Yet in fact, the Cristero war crossed the border into the United States, along with thousands of Mexican emigrants, exiles, and refugees.

In Mexican Exodus, Julia Young reframes the Cristero war as a transnational conflict, using previously unexamined archival materials from both Mexico and the United States to investigate the intersections between Mexicos Cristero War and Mexican migration to the United States during the late 1920s.
She traces the formation, actions, and ideologies of the Cristero diaspora--a network of Mexicans across the United States who supported the Catholic uprising from beyond the border. These Cristero supporters participated in the conflict in a variety of ways: they took part in religious ceremonies
and spectacles, organized political demonstrations and marches, formed associations and organizations, and collaborated with religious and political leaders on both sides of the border. Some of them even launched militant efforts that included arms smuggling, military recruitment, espionage, and
armed border revolts. Ultimately, the Cristero diaspora aimed to overturn Mexicos anticlerical government and reform the Mexican Constitution of 1917. Although the group was unable to achieve its political goals, Young argues that these emigrants--and the war itself--would have a profound and
enduring resonance for Mexican emigrants, impacting community formation, political affiliations, and religious devotion throughout subsequent decades and up to the present day.

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Book Title: Mexican Exodus : Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero

Number of Pages: 288 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Mexican Exodus : Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Item Height: 0.8 in

Subject: Latin America / Mexico, Political

Publication Year: 2019

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 15.6 Oz

Item Length: 9.2 in

Author: Julia G. Young

Subject Area: Biography & Autobiography, History

Item Width: 6.1 in

Format: Trade Paperback