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The Time of Liberty: Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750-1850

The Time of Liberty: Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750-1850

Guardino, Peter

Paperback

Series: Latin America Otherwise

General Political ScienceMexican History

ISBN10: 0822335204
ISBN13: 9780822335207
Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
Published: Apr 6 2005
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.32
Height: 1.07 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
Between 1750 and 1850 Spanish American politics underwent a dramatic cultural shift as monarchist colonies gave way to independent states based at least nominally on popular sovereignty and republican citizenship. In The Time of Liberty, Peter Guardino explores the participation of subalterns in this grand transformation. He focuses on Mexico, comparing local politics in two parts of Oaxaca: the mestizo, urban Oaxaca City and the rural villages of nearby Villa Alta, where the population was mostly indigenous. Guardino challenges traditional assumptions that poverty and isolation alienated rural peasants from the political process. He shows that peasants and other subalterns were conscious and complex actors in political and ideological struggles and that popular politics played an important role in national politics in the first half of the nineteenth century.

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