Workshop of revolution : plebeian Buenos Aires and the Atlantic world, 1776-1810 /

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Author / Creator:Johnson, Lyman L.
Imprint:Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011.
Description:xiv, 410 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8397435
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ISBN:9780822349662 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822349663 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822349815 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822349817 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of 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.