Johnson Workshop of Revolution

Plebeian Buenos Aires and the Atlantic World, 1776–1810
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9400-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten

Workshop of Revolution is a historical account of the economic and political forces that propelled the artisans, free laborers, and slaves of Buenos Aires into Argentinas struggle for independence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnson, Lyman L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Introduction 1

1. Plebeian City: Late Colonial Buenos Aires 17

2. The Structures of working Life: Masculinity, Sociability, Skill, and Honor 51

3. Remembered Scripts and Atlantic Colonial Realities: The Shoemakers and Silversmiths of Buenos Aires 85

4. Collective Obligations, Self-Interest, and Race: The Guilds of Silversmiths and Shoemakers Fail 117

5. The "French Conspiracy" of 1795 149

6. The Reproduction of Working-Class Life: Needing, Wanting, Having, and Saving 179

7. Working-Class Wages, Earnings, and the Organization of Urban Work 215

8. An Empire Lost: The Plebe Transformed 249

Epilogue 283

Notes 297

Bibliography 367

Index 391

Über Autor(innen)

Lyman L. Johnson is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is a co-author of Colonial Latin America, the editor of Death, Dismemberment, and Memory: Body Politics in Latin America, and a co-editor of Aftershocks: Earthquakes and Popular Politics in Latin America and The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America.