Tides of revolution : information, insurgencies, and the crisis of colonial rule in Venezuela /
"This is a book about the links between politics and literacy, and about how radical ideas spread in a world without printing presses. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Spanish colonial governments tried to keep revolution out of their provinces. But, as Cristina Soriano sh...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
2018.
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Colección: | Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Literacy and power in Venezuela's Late Colonial Society
- The spread of the "Revolutionary Disease": News, pamphlets, and subversive literacies
- The power of the voice: Imperial anxieties and rumors of revolution
- The shadow of Saint-Domingue in the Rebellion of Coro, 1795
- A revolutionary barbershop: Rumors, texts, and reading networks in the La Guaira Conspiracy of 1797
- The fear of foreign invasion: Black Corsairs in Maracaibo and other stories of black occupation.