The Rise and Fall of Legal Rule in Post-Colonial Mexico, 1820–1900
by
Timo H. Schaefer
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
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...