Lyman L Johnson: 3 books
Workshop of Revolution
Plebeian Buenos Aires and the Atlantic World, 1776–1810
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
The plebeians of Buenos Aires were crucial to the success of the revolutionary junta of May 1810, widely considered the start of the Argentine war of independence. Workshop of Revolution is a historical account of the economic and political forces that propelled the artisans, free laborers, and slaves...
by Michael J. Gonzales, Lyman L. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2002
This judicious history of modern Mexico's revolutionary era will help all readers, and in particular students, understand the first great social uprising of the twentieth century. In 1911, land-hungry peasants united with discontented political elites to overthrow General Porfirio Díaz, who had ruled...
The Faces of Honor
Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
A contemporary of Columbus noted "those crazy Spaniards have more regard for a bit of honor than for a thousand lives." This obsession flourished in the New World, where status, privilege, and rank became cornerstones of the colonial social order. Honor had many faces. To a freed black woman...