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1 online resource (x, 243 pages) : PDF file(s) |
| Series |
Cambridge Latin American studies ; 106 |
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Cambridge Latin American studies ; 106.
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| Contents |
Cover ; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I Liberalism as Utopia; II Peasant and Nation; III Law and Revolution; 1 Mestizo Towns; I Politics; II Soldiers; III Patricians; IV Municipalities; 2 Family and Legal Order; I Families; II Recruitment; III The Civic Militia; IV Civil War; 3 Haciendas; I Land and Revolution; II Disorder; III Metamorphosis; IV Despots; V Regions of Refuge; 4 Indigenous Towns; I A Separate People; II Colonial Legacies; III Land Conflicts; 5 Dictatorship; I Mythologies; II Jefes Políticos; III PrivatizationIV Labor; V Local Courts; Conclusion: Law and Exception in the Making of Modern Mexico; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Liberalism as Utopia challenges widespread perceptions about the weakness of Mexico's nineteenth-century state. Schaefer argues that after the War of Independence non-elite Mexicans - peasants, day laborers, artisans, local merchants - pioneered an egalitarian form of legal rule by serving in the town governments and civic militias that became the local faces of the state's coercive authority. These institutions were effective because they embodied patriarchal norms of labor and care for the family that were premised on the legal equality of male, adult citizens. The book also examines the emergence of new, illiberal norms that challenged and at the end of the century, during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, overwhelmed the egalitarianism of the early-republican period. By comparing the legal cultures of agricultural estates, mestizo towns and indigenous towns, Liberalism as Utopia also proposes a new way of understanding the social foundations of liberal and authoritarian pathways to state formation in the nineteenth-century world |
| Notes |
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Aug 2017) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-238) and index |
| Subject |
Community leadership -- Mexico -- History -- 19th century
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Liberalism -- Mexico -- History -- 19th century
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Local government -- Mexico -- History -- 19th century
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Social control -- Mexico -- History -- 19th century
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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Community leadership
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Liberalism
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Local government
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Social control
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Mexico
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017019547 |
| ISBN |
9781108116145 |
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1108116140 |
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1107190738 |
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9781107190733 |
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1316640787 |
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9781316640784 |
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9781108122610 |
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1108122612 |
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9781108123211 |
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110812321X |
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