9780826359865-0826359868-Tides of Revolution: Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela (Diálogos Series)

Tides of Revolution: Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela (Diálogos Series)

ISBN-13: 9780826359865
ISBN-10: 0826359868
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Cristina Soriano
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Format: Paperback 336 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780826359865
ISBN-10: 0826359868
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Cristina Soriano
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Format: Paperback 336 pages

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Tides of Revolution: Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela (Diálogos Series) (ISBN-13: 9780826359865 and ISBN-10: 0826359868), written by authors Cristina Soriano, was published by University of New Mexico Press in 2018. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Tides of Revolution: Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela (Diálogos Series) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.94.

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This is a book about the links between politics and literacy, and about how radical ideas spread in a world without printing presses. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Spanish colonial governments tried to keep revolution out of their provinces. But, as Cristina Soriano shows, hand-copied samizdat materials from the Caribbean flooded the cities and ports of Venezuela, hundreds of foreigners shared news of the French and Haitian revolutions with locals, and Venezuelans of diverse social backgrounds met to read hard-to-come-by texts and to discuss the ideas they expounded. These networks efficiently spread antimonarchical propaganda and abolitionist and egalitarian ideas, allowing Venezuelans to participate in an incipient yet vibrant public sphere and to contemplate new political scenarios. This book offers an in-depth analysis of one of the crucial processes that allowed Venezuela to become one of the first regions in Spanish America to declare independence from Iberia and turn into an influential force for South American independence.

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