Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America

by Sueann Caulfield

Book Overview

This collection brings together recent scholarship that examines how understandings of honor changed in Latin America between political independence in the early nineteenth century and the rise of nationalist challenges to liberalism in the 1930s. These rich historical case studies reveal the uneven processes through which ideas of honor and status came to depend more on achievements such as education and employment and less on the birthright privileges...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822335875
• ISBN13: 9780822335870
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"