Curso y discurso del movimiento plebeyo, 1849-1854

By Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín

Subjects: History, Working class, Social movements, Politics and government, Political activity, Artisans

Description: "Analysis of the popular movement of 1849-54 through its political culture and representative images. Challenges earlier interpretations by so-called 'new historians.' According to Gonzalo Sánchez, this monograph by an anthropologist is 'the most important contribution to the study of nineteenth-century artisans' since the classic works of Colmenares"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.