Gabriel
Gabriel Salazar Vergara (born 31 January 1936) is A Chilean historian. In Chile, he is popular for his studies in the field of social history as well as the interpretation of social movements. These include the recent student protests in 2006 and 2011. Salazar was born into a poor family. He attended Universidad de Chile and studied sociology, philosophy , and history. In addition, he was an assistant for Mario Gongora and Hector Herrera Cajas the classic historian. Salazar was a Revolutionary Left Movement member from 1973 to 1973. The military tortured him in Villa Grimaldi during that year. [2] Having been released from a military prison camp in 1976 , he moved into exile within The United Kingdom. Here he was granted the opportunity to receive a scholarship to study further at University of Hull. He received a PhD from the department of Economic and Social History from this university in the year 1984. Next year he returned to Chile. Salazar had been a bit unknown until the year 1985, when he achieved his first breakthrough. He was a scholar of peons and workers and proletarians. 1. Salazar is among the pioneers of the current of historiography referred to as Nueva Historia Social. Salazar considers history to be a tool to promote social action. Salazar stated that he's liberal and critical historian in an interview. He has resisted the "Marxist description."




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