Salvatore Ricardo D. Salvatore

Wandering Paysanos (eBook, PDF)

State Order and Subaltern Experience in Buenos Aires during the Rosas Era

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Produktbeschreibung

A pioneering examination of the experiences of peasants and peons, or paysanos, in the Buenos Aires province during Juan Manuel de Rosas's regime (1829-1852), Wandering Paysanos is one of the first studies to consider Argentina's history from a subalternist perspective. The distinguished Argentine historian Ricardo D. Salvatore situates the paysanos as mobile job seekers within an expanding, competitive economy as he highlights the points of contention between the peasants and the state: questions of military service, patriotism, crime, and punishment. He argues that only through a reconstruction of the different subjectivities of paysanos-as workers, citizens, soldiers, and family members-can a new understanding of postindependence Argentina be achieved.Drawing extensively on judicial and military records, Salvatore reveals the state's files on individual prisoners and recruits to be surprisingly full of personal stories directly solicited from paysanos. While consistently attentive to the fragmented and mediated nature of these archival sources, he chronicles how peons and peasants spoke to power figures-judges, police officers, and military chiefs-about issues central to their lives and to the emerging nation. They described their families and their wanderings across the countryside in search of salaried work, memories and impressions of the civil wars, and involvement with the Federalist armies. Their lamentations about unpaid labor, disrespectful government officials, the meaning of poverty, and the dignity of work provide vital insights into the contested nature of the formation of the Argentine Confederation. Wandering Paysanos discloses a complex world until now obscured-that of rural Argentine subalterns confronting the state.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 538
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822384731
• Artikelnr.: 54910396

Autorenporträt

Ricardo D. Salvatore is Professor of Modern History at Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires. He is coeditor of Crime and Punishment in Latin America: Law and Society since Late Colonial Times and Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.–Latin American Relations, both published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Tables and Illustrations xiii
Introduction 1
1. The Ways of the Market 25
2. Cash Nexus and Conflict 61
3. Provincianos’ Paths to Work 95
4. Class by Appearance 129
5. The Power of Laws 161
6. The Making of Crime 197
7. The Experience of Punishment 232
8. Regiments: Negotiation and Protest 262
9. Deserters’ Reasons 295
10. Memories of War 325
11. Rituals of Federalism 361
12. Subalterns and Progress 394
Conclusion 423
Notes 429
Glossary 493
References 497
Index 517