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Workshop of Revolution : Plebeian Buenos Aires and the Atlantic World, 1776-1810 /

"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 the struggle for independence. Drawing on extensive archival research in Argentina and Spain, Lyman L. Johnson portrays the daily live...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Johnson, Lyman L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Plebeian city : late colonial Buenos Aires
  • The structures of a working life : masculinity, sociability, skill, and honor
  • Remembered scripts and Atlantic colonial realities : the shoemakers and silversmiths of Buenos Aires
  • Collective obligations, self-interest, and race: the guilds of silversmiths and shoemakers fail
  • The "French conspiracy?" of 1795
  • The reproduction of working-class life : needing, wanting, having, and saving
  • Working-class wages, earnings, and the organization of urban work
  • An empire lost: the plebe transformed.