Riots in the Cities: Popular Politics and the Urban Poor in Latin America 1765-1910

by Servand Ortoll

Book Overview

The goal of Riots in the Cities, editors Silvia Marina Arrom and Servando Ortoll contend, is to encourage Latin Americanists to rethink standard notions of urban politics before the populist era. The actual political power wielded by the underprivileged city dwellers before the twentieth century has received little scholarly attention or has been downplayed. Researchers often described urban inhabitants as having little influence over both their lives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0842025804
• ISBN13: 9780842025805
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"