Posted on: February 6th, 2008
Filed Under: [ Hispanic News ] [ People ] [ Politics ] [ Higher Education ] [ Minnesota ]
Tags: Mexico, Professor
Eric Van Young, professor of history at the University of California, San Diego will speak Tuesday, Feb. 12 at 5 p.m. in Leighton Hall, room 304, on the Carleton College campus. His presentation, part of the College’s Herbert P. Lefler Lecture Series, is entitled “Tales from the Dark Side: Lucas Alamán, Conservatism, and Modernization in 19th-Century Mexico.” His appearance is free and open to the public.
Van Young is a renowned historian of colonial Mexico; in recent years his area of study has focused on Mexico’s 19th-century wars of independence. His current work, and the subject of his lecture, is Lucas Alamán, the man who is considered the father of Mexican conservatism, and a central character in the nation’s early history.”*
*From: http://apps.carleton.edu
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