Jean Meyer

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Jean Meyer
Meyer in 2019.
BornJean Meyer Barth
(1942-02-08) 8 February 1942 (age 82)
Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
OccupationAcademic, author
CitizenshipFrance
Mexico (since 1979)
Alma materSorbonne University
Paris Nanterre University
SubjectMexican Revolution
Cristero War
Manuel Lozada
History of Russia
RelativesYves Meyer

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]

Biography

Jean Meyer was born in

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

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.

Publications

References

  1. ^ Fonseca, Francisco (November 11, 2010). "El prefijo de moda". El Sol de Mexico (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 August 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Jean Meyer | Wilson Center". www.wilsoncenter.org. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
  3. ^ Jean Meyer, Esperando a Lozada. Guadalajara: El Colegio de Michoacan 1984.
  4. ^ Jean Meyer, La tierra de Manuel Lozada. Mexico City:CEMCA 1990.
  5. ^ "Manuel Lozada" in Encyclopedia of Mexico, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn 1997, 763-64.
  6. ^ Eric Van Young, "To See Someone Not Seeing: Historical Studies of Peasants and Politics in Mexico." Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 6, no. 1 (1990): 147.
  7. ^ republished as "Revolution and Reconstruction in the 1920s" in Mexico Since Independence, Leslie Bethell, ed. New York: Cambridge University Press 11991, pp. 201-240.

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