Jean Meyer Barth

Jean Meyer Barth (born February 8, 1942 in Nice ) is a French historian.

Life

He studied at the Sorbonne Université . He taught at the Sorbonne, in Perpignan, at the University of Paris, at the Colegio de México and Colegio de Michoacán. He has done extensive research on the Cristero War and has written books on the subject for the University of Cambridge and the University of Guadalajara. He also founded the Institute for Mexican Studies at the University of Perpignan in France.

His most important publications deal with conservative farmers in Mexico in the 19th and 20th centuries. His work on the Cristero War is critical to understanding this great uprising in Mexico after the enforcement of the anti-clerical articles of the Constitution of Mexico of 1917. He has also published important works on Manuel Lozada, a 19th century regional leader in Nayarit, who fought for the rights of mestizos and indigenous farmers. The historian Eric Van Young discussed Meyer's Esperando a Lozada and said: The main essays are beautifully written, talkative, heavily rhetorical, slightly wistful in tone, and at the same time intensely romantic and persistent "as in much of the best French annalist history.

He is a recognized authority in the immediate post-revolutionary period in Mexico and was selected to write the general article on Mexico in the 1920s for the Cambridge History of Latin America .

His brother is the mathematician Yves Meyer , who was awarded the Abel Prize .

Fonts (selection)

• La revolución mejicana 1910-1940 . Barcelona 1973, ISBN 84-7235-104-1 .
• La cruzada por México. Los católicos de Estados Unidos y la cuestión religiosa en México . Mexico City 2008, ISBN 970-699-189-1 .
• Cristeros. Testimonio fotográfico . Aguascalientes 2010, ISBN 607-7585-19-X .
• Manuel Lozada. El Tigre de Álica: general, revolucionario, rebelde . Mexico City 2015, ISBN 607-421-651-7 .

Web links

• academia.org.mx