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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| Language: | English |
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
2013.
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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.