Llorente's Readers in the Americas.

Because independence-minded Mexican leaders remained in their country after independence, hooks from Paris and the United States influenced their thinking about nation-building between 1821 and 1824 Llorente, aware of Spanish America's Catholic history and Mexican clerical leadership in the revolt, believed that Mexico needed to mark out religion's role in the new state structure. This political realist and historian discovered that decolonization and state planning in the Americas were natural outlets for his work.