San Antonio College Library

Examines the history of American conservatism from the Revolutionary War through the twentieth century, exploring the ideas and people who have influenced conservative though and its role in the United States.

"The Roots of Conservatism is the first attempt to ask why over the past two centuries so many Mexican peasants have opted to ally with conservative groups rather than their radical counterparts. Blending socioeconomic history, cultural analysis, and political narrative, Smith's study begins with the late Bourbon period and moves through the early republic, the mid-nineteenth-century Reforma, the Porfiriato, and the Revolution, when the Mixtecs rejected...