Wandering Paysanos: State Order and Subaltern Experience in Buenos Aires during the Rosas Era.(Book Review)

From: Journal of Social History | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Lasso, Marixa | Copyright information

Wandering Paysanos: State and Subaltern Experience in Buenos Aires during the Rosas Era. By Ricardo D. Salvatore (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. 544 pp. $59.95).

This detailed and provocative analysis of the Rosas Era questions engrained assumptions about the nature of Caudillo politics in post-independence Argentina and, one might add, Latin America. The stated purpose of this book is to revaluate the nature of subaltern politics during the Rosas Era. Building...

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