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Liberalism as Utopia - The Rise and Fall of Legal Rule in Post-Colonial Mexico, 1820-1900 (Paperback)
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Liberalism as Utopia - The Rise and Fall of Legal Rule in Post-Colonial Mexico, 1820-1900 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies
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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 Diaz, 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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