Lyman L. Johnson
Lyman L. Johnson is professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is also the general editor for UNM Press’s Dialogos series.
The Problem of Order in Changing Societies
Essays on Crime and Policing in Argentina and Uruguay
The six essays in this volume examine Argentina from the eighteenth century to the 1930s and Uruguay during the nineteenth century to show the links between crime and the social and economic order.
- Copyright year: 1990
The Faces of Honor
Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America
Honor was everywhere in Colonial Latin America, and to understand the many ways it had an impact on people's lives is to understand the organizing principles of a society.
- Copyright year: 1998
Death, Dismemberment, and Memory
Body Politics in Latin America
The long history of the politically symbolic use of the bodies, or body parts, of martyred heroes in Latin America.
- Copyright year: 2004
Aftershocks
Earthquakes and Popular Politics in Latin America
In using natural disasters as a way to study societal and especially political change, the essays in this volume illustrate the immediate as well as the long term consequences of destruction.
- Copyright year: 2009