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The pen, the sword, and the law : dueling and democracy in Uruguay /
"The duel, and the codes of honour that governed duelling, functioned for decades in many European and Latin American countries as a shadow legal system, regulating in practice what legislators felt free to say and what journalists felt free to write. Yet the duel was also an act of potentially...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2022.
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| Series: | McGill-Queen's Iberian and Latin American cultures series ;
3. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The Laws of Honor
- Dueling as Politics and the Politics of Dueling
- Impunity to Legality: Dueling and the Law, 1860s-1930s
- Resurgence and Recriminalization, 1950s-1992.