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...

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Main Author: Schaefer, Timo H. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Series:Cambridge Latin American studies ; 106.
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