caa a22 4500 386355096 CHVBK 20180307111848.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022216X00014796 doi S0022216X00014796 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022216X00014796 Sowell David David Sowell is Assistant Professor of History, Juniata College, University of South Carolina. The 1893 bogotazo: Artisans and Public Violence in Late Nineteenth-Century Bogotá [Elektronische Daten] [David Sowell] Bogotá suffered its most severe outbreak of public violence of the nineteenth century on 15 and 16 January 1893. Indeed apart from the bogotazo of 9 April 1948, it was perhaps the worst violence that the Colombian capital has ever experienced.1 For twenty-four hours the city experienced serious social disorder, which was brought under control only by the use of regular army troops at a cost of an unknown number of casualties. Surprisingly, the January 1893 bogotazo has not been subjected to serious historical examination. The role of craftsmen in the outbreak of violence offers a window in the largely unknown course of artisan political activity in Bogotá after the decline of the Democratic Society of Artisans in the mid-century reform period. More broadly, whereas the relationship between wage labourers and violence has attracted many scholars, the propensity of the artisan class to engage in violent activities in nineteenth-century Colombia (and in Latin America as a whole) deserves more scholarly investigation. What were the causes and the nature of the 1893 riot? Were they typical of nineteenth-century urban violence? Finally, how does the 1893 riot fit within the broad sweep of Colombian collective violence?2 Before attempting to answer these questions it is necessary to look briefly, by way of background, at Bogotá in the late nineteenth century, its economy and society, at the nature of Colombian politics and, in particular, at the role of artisans in bogotano politics and in earlier episodes of urban disorder. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of Latin American Studies Cambridge University Press 21/1-2(1989-06), 267-282 0022-216X 21:1-2<267 1989 21 LAS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022216X00014796 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022216X00014796 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Sowell David David Sowell is Assistant Professor of History, Juniata College, University of South Carolina NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Latin American Studies Cambridge University Press 21/1-2(1989-06), 267-282 0022-216X 21:1-2<267 1989 21 LAS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge