Pablo Mijangos y Gonz¿z is an assistant professor of history at the Centro de Investigaci¿n y Docencia Econ¿micas (CIDE) in Mexico City. He is the author of a book on Mexico¿s contemporary legal historiography, published in Spain, and is coeditor of a volume on the origins and transformations of the Spanish American constitutional tradition, published in Mexico.

List of Illustrations    
List of Tables    
Acknowledgments    
Introduction    
1. Born with the Revolution: From Los Reyes to the Lettered City    
2. Tempering Passions: Everyday Life and Curricular Formation at the Morelia Seminary    
3. The Grammar of Civilization: Language, Rhetoric, and the Shaping of Public Opinion    
4. “The Ways of Legitimacy”: Constitutionalism and Church-State Relations in El derecho natural    
5. The Defiant Bishop: The Catholic Church Confronts the Liberal Reforma    
6. Distant Allies: Conservatism and the Twilight of the Catholic State    
Conclusion    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index    
 

Pablo Mijangos y González is an assistant professor of history at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City. He is the author of a book on Mexico's contemporary legal historiography, published in Spain, and is coeditor of a volume on the origins and transformations of the Spanish American constitutional tradition, published in Mexico.