Insurgency, Counter-insurgency and Policing in Centre-West Mexico, 1926-1929

About this book

Waged between 1926 and 1929, the Cristero War (also known as the Cristero Rebellion or La Cristiada) resulted from a religious insurrectionary movement that formed in protest of the Mexican Revolution's anticlerical constitution of 1917. It was arguably the most violent and divisive episode in Mexican history between the 1910 Revolution itself and the ongoing 'Narco Wars'. Filling in major gaps in our understanding of the conflict, Mark Lawrence explores both combatant and civilian experiences in the centre-west Mexican state of Zacatecas and its borderlands. Lawrence shows that, despite the centrality of this key region, it has received little scholarly attention compared with other states, such as Jalisco or Michoacán, which saw similar levels of conflict.