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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136885903321

Autore

Romero Luis Alberto

Titolo

¿Qué hacer con los pobres? : elites y sectores populares en Santiago de Chile 1840-1895 / / Luis Alberto Romero

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ariadna Ediciones, 2007

Santiago, Chile : , : Ariadna Ediciones, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

2-8218-9578-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Open Access e-Books

Knowledge Unlatched

Disciplina

305.50983315

Soggetti

Social classes - Chile - Santiago - History - 19th century

Elite (Social sciences) - Chile - Santiago - Attitudes - History - 19th century

Poor - Chile - Santiago - Social conditions

Santiago (Chile) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Spagnolo

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Study on the phenomenon of the poor and poverty in Santiago city in the 19th century, and the reaction of the political and economic elite.

What to do with the poor?  is the provocative title of this book that is published for the first time in Chile.  This was also the question posed by the Santiago elite (and Chilean in general) during much of the nineteenth century, a question that still retains all its relevance.  The suggestive explanation of Luis Alberto Romero for the complex path of mentalities, images and representations of the other, opens new perspectives for the social history of Chile  ...