Tides of revolution : information, insurgencies, and the crisis of colonial rule in Venezuela /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Soriano, Cristina, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2018.
Series:Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
Subjects:
1700-1899
Underground literature > Venezuela > History and criticism.
Foreign news > Venezuela > History > 18th century.
Foreign news > Venezuela > History > 19th century.
Littérature clandestine > Venezuela > Histoire et critique.
Information internationale > Venezuela > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Information internationale > Venezuela > Histoire > 19e siècle.
15.85 history of America.
HISTORY > Latin America > Central America.
Foreign news.
Underground literature.
Venezuela > History > War of Independence, 1810-1823 > Underground literature.
Venezuela > Histoire > 1810-1823 (Guerre de l'Indépendance) > Littérature clandestine.
Venezuela.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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