Children of Facundo : caudillo and gaucho insurgency during the Argentine state-formation process (La Rioja, 1853-1870) / Ariel de la Fuente.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De la Fuente, Ariel.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government, Resistance to--Argentina--La Rioja (Province)--History.

Government, Resistance to.

Caudillos--Argentina--La Rioja (Province)--History--19th century.

Caudillos.

Gauchos--Argentina--La Rioja (Province)--History--19th century.

Gauchos.

Federal government--Argentina--History--19th century.

Federal government.

La Rioja (Argentina : Province)--History--19th century.

La Rioja (Argentina : Province).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Combines peasant studies and cultural history to revise the received wisdom on nineteenth-century Argentinian politics and aspects of the Argentinian state-formation process.

Contents:

1 Caudillos, Provincial Elites, and the Formation of the National State

2 Unitarians and Federalists in Famatina: The Agrarian Component of Political Conflict in a Valley of the Andean Interior

3 The Society of the Llanos

4 Gauchos, Montoneros, and Montoneras: Social Profile and Internal Workings of the Rebellions

5 Caudillos and Followers: The Forms of a Relationship

6 Facundo and Chacho in Songs and Stories: Oral Culture and Representations of Leadership

7 Whites and Blacks, Masons and Christians: Ethnicity and Religion in the Political Identity of the Federalist Rebels

8 State Formation and Party Identity: The New Meanings of Federalism in the 1860s

9 The Vanishing of Federalism

Conclusions.

Notes:

Originally presented as author's thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-245) and index.

ISBN:

9786613061782

9781283061780

1283061783

9780822380191

0822380196

OCLC:

245537922