Liberalism as utopia: the rise and fall of legal rule in post-colonial Mexico, 1820-1900 PDF
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Liberalism as Utopia LiberalismasUtopiachallengeswidespreadperceptionsabouttheweaknessofMexico’s nineteenth-century state. Schaefer argues that after the War of Independence non- elite Mexicans – peasants, day laborers, artisans, local merchants – pioneered an egalitarianformoflegalrulebyservinginthetowngovernmentsandcivicmilitias thatbecamethelocalfacesofthestate’scoerciveauthority.Theseinstitutionswere effectivebecausetheyembodiedpatriarchalnormsoflaborandcareforthefamilythat werepremisedonthelegalequalityofadult,malecitizens.Thebookalsoexamines theemergenceofnew,illiberalnormsthatchallengedtheegalitarianismoftheearly republicanperiodand,attheendofthecentury,overwhelmedit.Bycomparingthe legalculturesofagriculturalestates,mestizotowns,andindigenoustowns,Liberalism asUtopiaproposesanewwayofunderstandingthesocialfoundationsofliberaland authoritarianpathwaystostateformationinthenineteenthcentury. Timo H. Schaefer received his PhD in history from Indiana University. Between 2015and2017,hewasapostdoctoralfellowattheUniversityofBritishColumbia. cambridge latin american studies GeneralEditors KRISLANE,TulaneUniversity MATTHEWRESTALL,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity EditorEmeritus HERBERTS.KLEIN GouverneurMorrisEmeritusProfessorofHistory, ColumbiaUniversityandHooverResearchFellow, StanfordUniversity Liberalism as Utopia The Rise and Fall of Legal Rule in Post-Colonial Mexico, 1820–1900 TIMO H. SCHAEFER UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia 4843/24,2ndFloor,AnsariRoad,Daryaganj,Delhi–110002,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107190733 DOI:10.1017/9781108116145 ©TimoH.Schaefer2017 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2017 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabySheridanBooks,Inc. AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. ISBN978-1-107-19073-3Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. ForAllison.Forourlittlehistory. Contents Acknowledgments pageix Introduction 1 I LiberalismasUtopia 1 II PeasantandNation 7 III LawandRevolution 13 1 MestizoTowns 20 I Politics 20 II Soldiers 26 III Patricians 37 IV Municipalities 48 2 FamilyandLegalOrder 62 I Families 62 II Recruitment 65 III TheCivicMilitia 79 IV CivilWar 89 3 Haciendas 97 I LandandRevolution 97 II Disorder 101 III Metamorphosis 105 IV Despots 112 V RegionsofRefuge 122 4 IndigenousTowns 129 I ASeparatePeople 129 II ColonialLegacies 133 III LandConflicts 152 vii viii Contents 5 Dictatorship 161 I Mythologies 161 II JefesPolíticos 165 III Privatization 178 IV Labor 187 V LocalCourts 197 Conclusion:LawandExceptionintheMakingofModernMexico 204 Bibliography 216 Index 239
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