...Jaime E. Rodríguez O. Fowler provides a sophisticated account of the changing views of the idealogues he studies. That is a significant achievement, but his analysis fails to address a series of questions that had a profound impact on the evolution of ideologies in Mexico. Although he notes...

... mathematics than his politics, not the positivist idealogue who indoctrinated a generation of officers. To be sure, Constant and the Military Youth shared many characteristics—relative poverty, marginality in Rio society, and career frustration—but these did not automatically lead to their alliance. Rather...