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When duelling became widespread in early twentieth-century Uruguay, legislators facing this dilemma chose the unique and radical path of legalization. This book vividly explores how the only country in the world to decriminalize duelling managed the tension between these informal but widely accepted "gentlemanly laws" and its own criminal code.

-> The Flintstones - Die Familie Feuerstein (USA 1994): Die 1994er Verfilmung der Familie Feuerstein brachte die moderne Steinzeitfamilie aus der unvergesslichen Zeichentrickserie erstmals mit Starbesetzung auf die Leinwand. John Goodman (Fred Feuerstein), Rick Martins (Barney Geröllheimer), Rosie ODonnell (Betty Geröllheimer), Elizabeth Perkins (Wilma Feuerstein) und Elizabeth Taylor spielen die Hauptrollen in dieser Dinosaurier großen Stev...

-> The Flintstones - Die Familie Feuerstein (USA 1994): Die 1994er Verfilmung der Familie Feuerstein brachte die moderne Steinzeitfamilie aus der unvergesslichen Zeichentrickserie erstmals mit Starbesetzung auf die Leinwand. John Goodman (Fred Feuerstein), Rick Martins (Barney Geröllheimer), Rosie ODonnell (Betty Geröllheimer), Elizabeth Perkins (Wilma Feuerstein) und Elizabeth Taylor spielen die Hauptrollen in dieser Dinosaurier großen Stev...

The first book on the middle class in early twentieth-century Latin America to be published in English in a generation.No social class has generated more controversy than the middle class, and nowhere has that class been more controversial than in Latin America. Once believed not to exist, then later the great hope of the Alliance for Progress, the Latin American middle class is often blamed for not fulfilling the entrepreneurial, democratizin...

The first book on the middle class in early twentieth-century Latin America to be published in English in a generation.No social class has generated more controversy than the middle class, and nowhere has that class been more controversial than in Latin America. Once believed not to exist, then later the great hope of the Alliance for Progress, the Latin American middle class is often blamed for not fulfilling the entrepreneurial, democratizin...

As middle classes in developing countries grow in size and political power, do they foster stable democracies and prosperous, innovative economies? Or do they encourage crass materialism, bureaucratic corruption, unrealistic social demands, and ideological polarization? These questions have taken on a new urgency in recent years but they are not new, having first appeared in the mid twentieth century in debates about Latin America. At a moment...

As middle classes in developing countries grow in size and political power, do they foster stable democracies and prosperous, innovative economies? Or do they encourage crass materialism, bureaucratic corruption, unrealistic social demands, and ideological polarization? These questions have taken on a new urgency in recent years but they are not new, having first appeared in the mid twentieth century in debates about Latin America. At a moment...