Local Liberalism in Early National Oaxaca and Yucatán
by
Karen D. Caplan
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Indigenous Citizens challenges the commonly held assumption that early nineteenth-century Mexican state-building was a failure of liberalism. By comparing the experiences of two Mexican states, Oaxaca and Yucatán, Caplan shows how the institutions and ideas associated with liberalism became deeply...