Timo H. Schaefer is a historian and the author of the award-winning book Liberalism as Utopia: The Rise and Fall of Legal Rule in Post-Colonial Mexico, 1820–1900. He teaches Latin American history at the University of Edinburgh.
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A sweeping, five-hundred-year-history of Latin America that highlights the contributions of ordinary people in the struggle for free, democratic societies. Latin America threw off European colonialism in a continent-spanning series of revolutions and w... SEE MORE