Liberalism as utopia : the rise and fall of legal rule in post-colonial Mexico, 1820-1900 / Timo H. Schaefer.
2017
KGF292 .S33 2017 (Mapit)
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Liberalism as utopia : the rise and fall of legal rule in post-colonial Mexico, 1820-1900 / Timo H. Schaefer.
Imprint
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Description
x, 243 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Series
Cambridge Latin American studies ; 106.
Formatted Contents Note
Mestizo towns
Family and legal order
Haciendas
Indigenous towns
Dictatorship
Law and exception in the making of modern Mexico.
Family and legal order
Haciendas
Indigenous towns
Dictatorship
Law and exception in the making of modern Mexico.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-238) and index.
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STA
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KGF292 .S33 2017
Language
English
ISBN
9781107190733 (hardcover)
1107190738 (hardcover)
1107190738 (hardcover)
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