Lyman L Johnson

Workshop of Revolution

Plebeian Buenos Aires and the Atlantic World, 1776-1810

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 Argentinas struggle for independence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780822349662
• ISBN-10: 0822349663
• Artikelnr.: 32470254

Autorenporträt

Lyman L. Johnson

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Introduction 1
1. Plebeian City: Late Colonial Buenos Aires 17
2. The Structures of working Life: Masculinity, Sociability, Skill, and
Honor 51
3. Remembered Scripts and Atlantic Colonial Realities: The Shoemakers and
Silversmiths of Buenos Aires 85
4. Collective Obligations, Self-Interest, and Race: The Guilds of
Silversmiths and Shoemakers Fail 117
5. The "French Conspiracy" of 1795 149
6. The Reproduction of Working-Class Life: Needing, Wanting, Having, and
Saving 179
7. Working-Class Wages, Earnings, and the Organization of Urban Work 215
8. An Empire Lost: The Plebe Transformed 249
Epilogue 283
Notes 297
Bibliography 367
Index 391