The Lawyer of the Church

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"[The Lawyer of the Church] is without doubt a fascinating intellectual and political history that must be read by anybody concerned with Mexico's Reforma and church-state relations in nineteenth-century Latin America."-Will Fowler, Hispanic American Historical Review "An essential read for scholars of Mexican history, and scholars of constitutionalism and the nineteenth-century Catholic Church will also find much of interest."-Aaron Van Oosterhout, Catholic Historical Review "[The Lawyer of the Church] offers a comprehensive and global perspective of how Catholic thinkers in the nineteenth century formed and were formed by the modernizing intellectual currents of their day."-Zachary Brittsan, American Historical Review "A new, broadly learned, critical, illuminating, and highly significant account of Clemente de Jesus Munguia's important part in the struggles for Mexico. This is a book every historian of Mexico should read; its value will last long."-John Womack, author of Zapata and the Mexican Revolution



"The most thorough and extended intellectual history yet written of the Catholic Church as it faced up to the Reform, if not one of the better cultural histories of the Reform written from any angle."-Matthew Butler, author of Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico's Cristero Rebellion: Michoacan, 1927-1929