This is a welcome addition to the literature on state and nation formation. It compares and contrasts how two similarly configured countries, Peru and Mexico, tried various government experiments over the course of a century to form national communities by extending citizenship to the excluded masses while integrating their national economies into the globalizing economy. The result is a detailed, nuanced, and original collection by a group of top-drawer scholars that will advance our understanding of early nation building in Latin America." - Peter KlarÉn, author of Peru: Society and Nationhood in the Andes"State Formation in the Liberal Era is an exceptionally nuanced exploration of the uneven nature of nation making and economic development in Peru and Mexico from 1850 to 1950. It is a compelling account that transforms our understanding of postcolonial Latin America - of how competing and often contradictory forces simultaneously produced and tore new nations apart." - Steve Striffler, author of In the Shadows of State and Capital: United Fruit, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995

• Preface: Capitalisms, Citizens, and Claims of StatehoodAcknowledgmentsPART I. COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN NATION BUILDING, CA. 1850–19001. State Formation and Fiscal Organization in Peru, 1850–19342. Banking on Foreigners: Conflict and Accommodation Within Mexico’s National Bank, 1881–19113. Order, Progress, and the Modernization of Race, State, and Market in Chiapas, Mexico, 1876–19114. The Official Making of Undocumented Citizens in Peru, 1880–1930PART II. COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN NATION BUILDING, CA. 1900–19505. Shifting State-Landlord-Peasant Relations in the Districts of AsunciÓn and CospÁn (Cajamarca, Peru), 1920–19306. Labor Conflict, Arbitration, and the Labor State in Highland Peru7. Notes on the “Afterlife”: Forced Labor, Modernization, and Political Paranoia in Twentieth-Century Peru8. Intellectual Workers, Socialist Shopkeepers, and Revolutionary Millionaires: The Political Economy of Postrevolutionary YucatÁn,1924–19359. Communal Work, Forced Labor, and Road Building in Mexico,1920–1958BibliographyContributorsIndex

This is a welcome addition to the literature on state and nation formation. It compares and contrasts how two similarly configured countries, Peru and Mexico, tried various government experiments over the course of a century to form national communities by extending citizenship to the excluded masses while integrating their national economies into the globalizing economy. The result is a detailed, nuanced, and original collection by a group of top-drawer scholars that will advance our understanding of early nation building in Latin America." - Peter KlarÉn, author of Peru: Society and Nationhood in the Andes"State Formation in the Liberal Era is an exceptionally nuanced exploration of the uneven nature of nation making and economic development in Peru and Mexico from 1850 to 1950. It is a compelling account that transforms our understanding of postcolonial Latin America - of how competing and often contradictory forces simultaneously produced and tore new nations apart." - Steve Striffler, author of In the Shadows of State and Capital: United Fruit, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995

• Preface: Capitalisms, Citizens, and Claims of StatehoodAcknowledgmentsPART I. COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN NATION BUILDING, CA. 1850–19001. State Formation and Fiscal Organization in Peru, 1850–19342. Banking on Foreigners: Conflict and Accommodation Within Mexico’s National Bank, 1881–19113. Order, Progress, and the Modernization of Race, State, and Market in Chiapas, Mexico, 1876–19114. The Official Making of Undocumented Citizens in Peru, 1880–1930PART II. COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN NATION BUILDING, CA. 1900–19505. Shifting State-Landlord-Peasant Relations in the Districts of AsunciÓn and CospÁn (Cajamarca, Peru), 1920–19306. Labor Conflict, Arbitration, and the Labor State in Highland Peru7. Notes on the “Afterlife”: Forced Labor, Modernization, and Political Paranoia in Twentieth-Century Peru8. Intellectual Workers, Socialist Shopkeepers, and Revolutionary Millionaires: The Political Economy of Postrevolutionary YucatÁn,1924–19359. Communal Work, Forced Labor, and Road Building in Mexico,1920–1958BibliographyContributorsIndex

This is a welcome addition to the literature on state and nation formation. It compares and contrasts how two similarly configured countries, Peru and Mexico, tried various government experiments over the course of a century to form national communities by extending citizenship to the excluded masses while integrating their national economies into the globalizing economy. The result is a detailed, nuanced, and original collection by a group of top-drawer scholars that will advance our understanding of early nation building in Latin America." - Peter KlarÉn, author of Peru: Society and Nationhood in the Andes"State Formation in the Liberal Era is an exceptionally nuanced exploration of the uneven nature of nation making and economic development in Peru and Mexico from 1850 to 1950. It is a compelling account that transforms our understanding of postcolonial Latin America - of how competing and often contradictory forces simultaneously produced and tore new nations apart." - Steve Striffler, author of In the Shadows of State and Capital: United Fruit, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995

• Preface: Capitalisms, Citizens, and Claims of StatehoodAcknowledgmentsPART I. COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN NATION BUILDING, CA. 1850–19001. State Formation and Fiscal Organization in Peru, 1850–19342. Banking on Foreigners: Conflict and Accommodation Within Mexico’s National Bank, 1881–19113. Order, Progress, and the Modernization of Race, State, and Market in Chiapas, Mexico, 1876–19114. The Official Making of Undocumented Citizens in Peru, 1880–1930PART II. COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN NATION BUILDING, CA. 1900–19505. Shifting State-Landlord-Peasant Relations in the Districts of AsunciÓn and CospÁn (Cajamarca, Peru), 1920–19306. Labor Conflict, Arbitration, and the Labor State in Highland Peru7. Notes on the “Afterlife”: Forced Labor, Modernization, and Political Paranoia in Twentieth-Century Peru8. Intellectual Workers, Socialist Shopkeepers, and Revolutionary Millionaires: The Political Economy of Postrevolutionary YucatÁn,1924–19359. Communal Work, Forced Labor, and Road Building in Mexico,1920–1958BibliographyContributorsIndex