From Subjects to Citizens: Honor, Gender, and Politics in Arequipa, Peru, 1780-1854

by Sarah C. Chambers

Book Overview

Offering a corrective to previous views of Spanish-American independence, this book shows how political culture in Peru was dramatically transformed in this period of transition and how the popular classes as well as elites played crucial roles in this process.

Honor, underpinning the legitimacy of Spanish rule and a social hierarchy based on race and class during the colonial era, came to be an important source of resistance by ordinary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271019018
• ISBN13: 9780271019017
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

From Subjects to Citizens Honor, Gender and Politics in Areq

Can a book be academic and yet an exciting "page turner"? FROM SUBJECTS TO CITIZENS is proof that a well written history can, and indeed, should be both. The author's ample use of court documented everyday events and conflicts "humanize" this story of a Peruvian city during the republican era. It was fun for me to reflect on the similarities and differences between South and North America during this period.