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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.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

x, 243 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Local government--Mexico--History--19th century.
Community leadership--Mexico--History--19th century.
Social control--Mexico--History--19th century.
Liberalism--Mexico--History--19th century.
HISTORY / Latin America / General.
Community leadership.
Liberalism.
Local government.
Social control.
Mexico.
1800-1899
History.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Mestizo towns; 2. Family and legal order; 3. Haciendas; 4. Indigenous towns; 5. Dictatorship -- conclusion: 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.

Series:

Cambridge latin american studies ; 106

ISBN:

1107190738 (hardback)
9781107190733 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)981115655

LCCN:

2017019547

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)