Ambitious rebels : remaking honor, law, and liberalism in Venezuela, 1780-1850 /

"By examining everyday life in Venezuela's post-colonial period, Reuben Zahler provides a broad perspective on conditions throughout the Americas and the tension between traditional norms and new liberal standards during Venezuela's transformation from a Spanish colony to a modern rep...

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Main Author: Zahler, Reuben, 1968- (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2013.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • From colony to liberal republic: the enlightenment experiment
  • Bureaucrats ascendant: building a regime of law
  • Law versus justice: legalism in the courts
  • "Patrimony of the soul": honor in the liberal republic
  • Wife, mother, citizen, whore: honor and law for women
  • Liberalism without a loyal opposition: the elite consensus cracks, 1830s-40s
  • The poor push back.