La Vida cotidiana en La Paz durante la guerra de la Independencia, 1800-1825

The author’s purpose is to explore the social and economic milieu out of which the political and military events developed between 1800 and 1825 insofar as La Paz was concerned. Their premise is that everyday affairs give a rhythm to the lives of a people and provide a pulse that can be read by the latter-day investigator; material that seems trivial to the untrained eye can prove valuable in helping to reconstruct the past, especially if one is interested in “people” as opposed to “events.”