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Liberalism as utopia : the rise and fall of legal rule in post-colonial Mexico, 1820-1900

Schaefer, Timo H., author

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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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• 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.
• ISBN: 9781107190733, 1107190738

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
JS2107.S33 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE