Indigenous Citizens: Local Liberalism in Early National Oaxaca and Yucatan

by KarenD.Caplan (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $40.06

  Local Liberalisms shows how early nineteenth-century Mexicans-be they indigenous villagers, government officials, or local elites-worked to incorporate the institutions of liberalism into their daily political lives, and how those local institutions interacted with a national liberal movement that often contradicted them.