Jean Meyer Barth | |
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Born | Nice, France | February 8, 1942
Nationality | French (by birth), Mexican (naturalized 1979) |
Relatives | Yves Meyer (French mathematician, cousin) |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1997–1998) National Prize for Arts and Sciences (2011) Member, Mexican Academy of History |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Sorbonne Paris Nanterre University |
Thesis | 'Les Cristeros : contribution à l’histoire de la guerre des paysans mexicains, 1926–1929' (1971) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | Mexican history Religious conflict Rural society |
Institutions | El Colegio de México Colegio de Michoacán CIDE University of Perpignan |
Notable works | La Cristiada (3 vols) The Cristero Rebellion |
Jean Meyer Barth (born February 8,1942) is a French-Mexican historian and author,known for his writings on early 20th-century Mexican history. [1] He has published extensively on the Mexican Revolution and Cristero War,the history of Nayarit,and on the caudillo Manuel Lozada. He is a faculty member at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas,and a Guggenheim Fellow. [2]
Jean Meyer was born in Nice. He obtained bachelor's and master's degrees at the Sorbonne University. He has taught at Sorbonne,Perpignan,the University of Paris,the Colegio de México,the Colegio de Michoacán,and the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas. He has done extensive research on the Cristero War and written books on the subject for the University of Cambridge and the Universidad de Guadalajara. He also founded the Institute of Mexican Studies at the University of Perpignan in France.
His major publications deal with conservative peasants in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico. His work on the Cristero War is crucial for the understanding of this major uprising in Mexico following the enforcement of the anticlerical articles of the 1917 Constitution of Mexico. He has also published important works about Manuel Lozada,a nineteenth-century regional leader in Nayarit who fought for the rights of mestizo and indigenous peasants. [3] [4] [5] Historian Eric Van Young reviewed Meyer's Esperando a Lozada,saying "the major essays are beautifully written,talky,strongly rhetorical,slightly wistful in tone,and intensely romantic and hardheaded at one and the same time,as with much of the best French annaliste history." [6] He has also written on Soviet and Russian history. [2]
He is a recognized authority on the immediate post-revolutionary period in Mexico and was chosen to write the general article on Mexico in the 1920s for the Cambridge History of Latin America. [7]
His cousin is the Abel Prize-winning mathematician Yves Meyer.
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