Dissertation Information for Gustavo Luis Paz NAME: - Gustavo Luis Paz
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- History
SCHOOL:
- Emory University (USA) (1999)
ADVISORS: - Susan Migden Socolow
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - Peter J Bakewell - Lyman L. Johnson
MPACT Status: Fully Complete
Title: Province and nation in northern Argentina: Peasants, elite and the state, Jujuy, 1790-1880
Abstract: This is a study of a province of interior Argentina, Jujuy. It is part of the Andes not only for its geographical features but also for its trade connections with Peru, the ethnic make-up of its population, and the kinship and cultural ties of its elite. The study encompasses one hundred years of history, from the inception of the Bourbon reforms in the 1780\'s to the consolidation of the nation-state in Argentina in the 1880s.
Interior Argentina is a historiographical void. The literature devoted to late colonial and nineteenth-century Argentina is massively concentrated on the city and province of Buenos Aires. Without denying the prevalence of Buenos Aires in the process of nation building, I study it from the point of view of a province, as it was upon previously independent provinces that the nation-state expanded its sphere of action.
I frame my work within the context of the transition from the colonial social and political formation to a post-colonial one, seeking to identify elements of continuity and change. In the case of Jujuy many economic, political, and social structures from the colonial era persisted well into the nineteenth century. External factors, mainly the war of independence and the ensuing civil strife, broke down some of the colonial relations but they did not make the old regime as a whole collapse. Only the expansion of the state from the 1850s would make the old structures crumble. To explain this process I focus on the interaction of three main social actors: the elite who ruled the province, the peasants who made the majority of its population, and the state institutions and agents which penetrated into the province\'s society and finally altered the relationships established since colonial times between the other two.
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