Workshop of Revolution - Plebeian Buenos Aires and the Atlantic World, 17761810

Informationen zum Autor Lyman L. Johnson Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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

Product details

• Authors: Lyman L Johnson, Lyman L. Johnson
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.05.2011
• EAN: 9780822349662
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4966-2
• No. of pages: 432
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Politikwissenschaft, Südamerika