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Connected Struggles: Catholics, Nationalists, and Transnational Relations Between Mexico and Quebec, 1917-1945
Nationalists from Quebec and Catholic militants from Mexico once shared a common cause, one that influenced international relations between their two countries. At a time when the Revolution and its aftermath in Mexico and world wars marginalized voices of political dissent in Canada, Catholics in both nations saw their cultural struggles as interconnected and worked to build transnational alliances as meaningful discourses of cultural identity. In Connected Struggles, Maurice Demers considers how and why groups from Mexico and Quebec actively sought to establish close cultural and political links. Drawing on extensive research in government, religious, and university archives in Mexico and Canada, Demers delves into the actors, their rationales, and the processes and meanings of such alliances. He proposes a reinterpretation of North-South collaboration in the Americas by analysing how the bonds created by Quebec's and Mexico's civil societies and religious communities influenced diplomatic relations, showing not only the Catholic origins of this solidarity, but its conservative - even reactionary - roots. Demers explains how the foreign ministries in Canada and Mexico both used and denounced these linkages, depending on the political gains to be made. Documenting the emergence of solidarity between French Canadians and Mexicans, Connected Struggles contributes to the understanding of the influence of civil societies in the history of international relations.
Book Details
- Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
- Publish Date: Feb 1st, 2015
- Pages: 304
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.90in - 5.90in - 0.80in - 0.80lb
- EAN: 9780773543577
- Categories: • Americas (North Central South West Indies)• Christianity - Catholic• History
About the Author
DeMers, Maurice: - CA
Praise for this book
"The author sets out a historical context that ranges broadly. [...] This makes for a challenging and complex argument that spends equal time examining the internal politics of two sovereign nations and international relations as imagined, constructed, an
"Connected Struggles makes a very significant and original contribution and represents a serious advance in state-of-the art research. Identity politics influenced the history of Canadian and Mexican diplomacy in the Americas - that is what is revealed an