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Author Johnson, Lyman L.

Title Workshop of revolution : plebeian Buenos Aires and the Atlantic world, 1776-1810 / Lyman L. Johnson
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 410 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Online access with subscription: Duke University Press
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Working class -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- History -- 18th century
Working class -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
Working class
Arbeiterklasse.
Arbetarklassen -- historia -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- 1700-talet -- 1800-talet.
SUBJECT Buenos Aires (Argentina) -- History -- 18th century
Buenos Aires (Argentina) -- History -- 19th century
Subject Argentina -- Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires -- historia -- 1700-talet -- 1800-talet.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010041585
ISBN 9780822394006
0822394006
1283265990
9781283265997
9786613265999
6613265993