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Workshop of revolution : plebeian Buenos Aires and the Atlantic world, 1776-1810 / Lyman L. Johnson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Lyman L.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Working class--Argentina--Buenos Aires--History--18th century.
- Working class.
- Working class--Argentina--Buenos Aires--History--19th century.
- Buenos Aires (Argentina)--History--18th century.
- Buenos Aires (Argentina).
- Buenos Aires (Argentina)--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (428 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 Argentina s struggle for independence.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613265999
- 9781283265997
- 1283265990
- 9780822394006
- 0822394006
- OCLC:
- 745057746
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