The Time of Liberty: Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750-1850, by Peter Guardino. Latin America Otherwise series. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2005. ix, 405 pp. $84.95 US (cloth), $23.95 US (paper).
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, The Time of Liberty, is an important and valuable addition to this debate. Instead of just assuming popular and elite political culture evolved from the colonial to the republican period, Guardino carefully analyzes how exactly political discourse and action changed and why. The book makes powerful arguments and contributions to the nation and state formation debates due to its expansive temporal reach, its intensive archival research in Oaxaca, its combination of social and political history, its fascinating comparison of rural and urban politics, and its provoking arguments on the nature of hegemony and political …
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