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Author Schaefer, Timo H., author.

Title Liberalism as utopia : the rise and fall of legal rule in post-colonial Mexico, 1820-1900 / Timo H. Schaefer.

Publication Info. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 243 pages) : PDF file(s).
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Series Cambridge Latin American studies ; 106
Cambridge Latin American studies ; 106.
Note Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Aug 2017).
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.
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.
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Subject Community leadership -- Mexico -- History -- 19th century.
Community leadership.
Mexico.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Liberalism -- Mexico -- History -- 19th century.
Liberalism.
Local government -- Mexico -- History -- 19th century.
Local government.
Social control -- Mexico -- History -- 19th century.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
Social control.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form History.
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