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

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE The Time of Liberty by Peter Guardino Analyzes the massive shift in Mexican political culture between the 18th and 19th centuries, asking how shifts in ideology initiated by elites played out in popular political culture and comparing the impact of political innovations on the culture of both Oaxacan indigenous peasants and Oaxacan urban plebeians. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Between 1750 and 1850 Spanish American politics underwent a dramatic cultural shift from monarchist colonies 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. Guardino makes extensive use of archival materials including judicial transcripts and newspaper accounts to illuminate the dramatic contrasts between the local politics of the city and the countryside, describing in detail how both sets of citizens spoke and acted politically.He contends that, although it was the elites who initiated the national change to republicanism, the transition took root only when engaged by subalterns. He convincingly argues that various aspects of the new political paradigms found adherents among even some of the most isolated segments of society and that any subsequent failure of electoral politics was due to the absence of pluralism rather of widespread political participation. Notes Analyzes the massive shift in Mexican political culture between the 18th and 19th centuries, asking how shifts in ideology initiated by elites played out in popular political culture and comparing the impact of political innovations on the culture of both Oaxacan indigenous peasants and Oaxacan urban plebeians. Back Cover ""The Time of Liberty" takes on the most important issues around Mexican independence and draws fundamentally important and transforming conclusions. It is the finest analysis yet written of politics and political culture before, during, and after Mexican independence."--John Tutino, author of "From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico: Social Bases of Agrarian Violence, 1750-1940" ""The Time of Liberty" is a welcome and much needed addition to the literatures on popular political culture, indigenous politics, independence, and the first half-century of Mexicos independent political life. It will be influential in debates on nineteenth-century Mexican history and more broadly."--Florencia E. Mallon, author of "Peasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru" Author Biography Peter Guardino is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of Peasants, Politics, and the Formation of Mexicos National State: Guerrero, 1800–1857. Table of Contents Acknowledgments viiIntroduction 11. Society, Economy, and Politics in Colonial Antequera 192. Society, Economy, and Political Culture in Colonial Villa Alta 403. Bourbon Intentions and Subaltern Responses 914. Loyalty, Liberalism, War, and Independence 1225. Oil and Vinegar: The Construction and Dissolution of Republican Order in the City of Oaxaca 1566. The Reconstruction of Order in the Countryside 223Conclusion 275Notes 293Bibliography 369Index 395 Review "The Time of Liberty takes on the most important issues around Mexican independence and draws fundamentally important and transforming conclusions. It is the finest analysis yet written of politics and political culture before, during, and after Mexican independence."--John Tutino, author of From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico: Social Bases of Agrarian Violence, 1750-1940 "The Time of Liberty is a welcome and much needed addition to the literatures on popular political culture, indigenous politics, independence, and the first half-century of Mexicos independent political life. It will be influential in debates on nineteenth-century Mexican history and more broadly."--Florencia E. Mallon, author of Peasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru "Guardinos book makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of nonelite politics in early independent Mexico..."--Emmett Lombard, Perspectives in Political Science "A very valuable study."--Angela T. Thompson, History: Reviews of New Books "Exhaustive... Guardino provides an invaluable biography of Benito Juarez and his milieu in the heartland of La Reforma, and one which unravels whiggish projections of radical anti-clericalism and calls for the juridical abolition of indigenous communities back onto the 1820s and 1830s ... These contributions will help to make The Time of Liberty required reading and earn its passage into the canon of nineteenth-century Mexican history."--Everard Meade, Journal of Latin American Studies "Historians and graduate students will appreciate how the author constantly probes questions of historical research and historiography..."--Francie Chassen-Lopez, American Historical Review "Peter Guardino was one of the pioneers of the new scholarship on nineteenth-century nation and state formation, and especially the roles of subalterns in these processes, that emerged in the 1990s. His new book is an important and valuable addition to this debate... The book will be a touchstone for studies of popular politics, not only in Mexico..."--James E. Sanders, Canadian Journal of History "Peter Guardinos new book reflects some of the most interesting and innovative trends in the study of Mexican political history over the last decade or so, trends of which he himself has been one of the architects." --Eric Van Young, Journal of Social History Promotional Analyzes the massive shift in Mexican political culture between the 18th and 19th centuries, asking how shifts in ideology initiated by elites played out in popular political culture and comparing the impact of political innovations on the culture of both Oaxacan indigenous peasants and Oaxacan urban plebeians. Long Description 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. Guardino makes extensive use of archival materials, including judicial transcripts and newspaper accounts, to illuminate the dramatic contrasts between the local politics of the city and of the countryside, describing in detail how both sets of citizens spoke and acted politically. He contends that although it was the elites who initiated the national change to republicanism, the transition took root only when engaged by subalterns. He convincingly argues that various aspects of the new political paradigms found adherents among even some of the most isolated segments of society and that any subsequent failure of electoral politics was due to an absence of pluralism rather than a lack of widespread political participation. Review Quote "What sets Guardinos book apart, as he says himself, is its comparative and entirely empirical methodology, as well as the fact that it gives equal (or even slightly greater) attention to the rural peasants than to the urban proletariat. Guardino is able to comment upon or modify the most recent theoretical views of the subject of the transformation of political hegemonies at independence and the extent to which indigenous people comprehended and responded to the new political philosophies of republican democracy and ethnic equality. In addition, he offers solid new approaches to the old problem of explaining the postindependence political instability of Mexico." --Timothy E. Anna, "The Historian" Promotional "Headline" Analyzes the massive shift in Mexican political culture between the 18th and 19th centuries, asking how shifts in ideology initiated by elites played out in popular political culture and comparing the impact of political innovations on the culture of both Oaxacan indigenous peasants and Oaxacan urban plebeians. Details ISBN0822335085 Short Title TIME OF LIBERTY Publisher Duke University Press Language English ISBN-10 0822335085 ISBN-13 9780822335085 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 972.74 Year 2005 Imprint Duke University Press Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Illustrations 3 maps DOI 10.1604/9780822335085 UK Release Date 2005-04-06 AU Release Date 2005-04-06 NZ Release Date 2005-04-06 US Release Date 2005-04-06 Author Peter Guardino Pages 416 Series Latin America Otherwise Publication Date 2005-04-06 Subtitle Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750–1850 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. 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