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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Soriano, Cristina, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2018.
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.