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About the Author Reuben Zahler received his PhD in history from the University of Chicago in 2005 and is currently an assistant professor in the History Department at the University of Oregon. Inspired by revolutionary disruptions he witnessed during his travels in Central America and the Andes in the 1980s, his research explores Latin America’s first radical efforts to embrace the foreign ideologies of modernity during the Age of Revolution. His publications investigate the evolution of honor, law, and patriarchy as Venezuelans adopted civil rights, capitalism, and democracy into their institutions and daily lives. These issues illuminate the tension between official ideology and the realities of daily life for ordinary men and women, and they resound throughout developing countries to this day. ...

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