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Liberalism as utopia : the rise and fall of legal rule in post-colonial Mexico, 1820-1900 /
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 t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Cambridge Latin American studies ;
106. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Notas: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Aug 2017). |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 243 pages) : PDF file(s). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-238) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108116145 1108116140 1107190738 9781107190733 1316640787 9781316640784 9781108122610 1108122612 9781108123211 110812321X |