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This is the first book to take a New Military History approach to Mexico's cristero rebellion and to use concepts such as asymmetrical warfare and Kalyvas's logic of violence to theorize events on the ground. The book also traces life on the home front in unusual depth, showing how people on both the near and far edges of battle in Zacatecas (the book's regional focus) were affected by it. The result is an integral, powerfully experiential history of what it meant to live through the rebellion. Mark Lawrence reminds us, above all, that the Cristiada was a war, one that exacted a terrible cost in blood and treasure from the society in which it took place. * Matthew Butler, Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin, USA *

This is the first book to take a New Military History approach to Mexico’s cristero rebellion and to use concepts such as asymmetrical warfare and Kalyvas’s “logic of violence” to theorize events on the ground. The book also traces life on the “home front” in unusual depth, showing how people on both the near and far edges of battle in Zacatecas (the book’s regional focus) were affected by it. The result is an integral, powerfully experiential history of what it meant to live through the rebellion. Mark Lawrence reminds us, above all, that the Cristiada was a war, one that exacted a terrible cost in blood and treasure from the society in which it took place. * Matthew Butler, Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin, USA * Mark Lawrence reminds us of the persistence of local memory in Zacatecasv ... His much needed military analysis of the Cristero War will engage and instruct scholars of west-central Mexico as well as military historians trying to understand why a seemingly minor religious war still resonates to this day. * Michigan War Studies Review * This book assembles a very useful selection of introductions to counterinsurgency relocation, including some (notably such those in Cuba, South Africa, and Vietnam) which are excellent stand-alone summaries. * Journal of Contemporary History *

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Mark Lawrence is Lecturer in History at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author of Spain’s First Carlist War, 1833-40 (2014), which was named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title in 2018.

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