Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 - National Liberalism, Local Liberalisms -- Why "Liberalism"? -- Popular Liberalism, Local Liberalisms, and the Comparative Project -- The Case Studies: Oaxaca and Yucatán -- The Politics of Autonomy: Colonial Oaxaca and Yucatán -- From Colonial to Liberal: Indígenas and the State after Independence -- Summary of the Study -- CHAPTER 2 - The Institutional Revolution in Town Politics -- Political Participation in Constitutional New Spain, Oaxaca, and Yucatán -- CHAPTER 3 - Reluctant Taxpayers, Unwilling Soldiers, but "Submissive Sons" -- Oaxaca's New "República de Indios" -- Liberal Citizenship in the "Shadow of Misery": Taxation and the Draft, 1825-1848 -- "The Public Good and the Good of our Barrio": Oaxacan Town Government after 1836 -- CHAPTER 4 - The Disintegration of a Divided Polity -- Yucatán's New República de Indios: Federalism and Centralism, 1821-1839 -- The Kind Hands of the Superior Government: Land Legislation under Federalism and Centralism -- The Return to Federalism and the Breakdown of State Authority, 1839-1847 -- Oaxaca and Yucatán Compared, 1825-1847 -- CHAPTER 5 - "The Shadow of Liberty" -- Indigenous Villages and the Politics of Reform, 1847-1855 -- Indigenous Custom and Liberal Practice in Oaxaca's Villages -- Reforming the Towns: Communal Funds and Education in the New Regime -- Protecting the "Government of the Indígenas": Oaxaca under Santa Anna, 1852-1855 -- Land and Social Peace in Oaxaca, 1854-1858 -- CHAPTER 6 - The Transformation of Indigenous Citizenship -- Indigenous Citizenship and the Caste War -- Building a New Yucatán: The State, the Nonindigenous Population, and Indigenous Labor -- Local Liberalisms: Oaxaca and Yucatán Compared -- Conclusion - LOCAL LIBERALISMS AND NATIONAL LIBERALISM IN THE LATTER NINETEENTH CENTURY.

List of Abbreviations in Notes -- Notes -- Index.