Gabriel
Gabriel Salazar Vergara was born on 31 January 1936. Vergara is Chilean history. The historian is well-known in the country for his studies of social history and interpretations of popular movements, including protests by students in 2006 and 2011-12. Salazar was born into a lower class family. He studied history, sociology and the philosophy department during his time at Universidad de Chile, and for time he was working as an assistant for his mentors, historian Mario Gongora and classical historian Hector Herrera Cajas. [1] Salazar used to be a member of the Revolutionary Left Movement until 1973. [2] In that year his torture was carried out in Villa Grimaldi by the military. After his release from the prison camp for military He fled to England. There he obtained a scholarship for further studies at University of Hull. At that school, he earned a PhD diploma from the department of Economic and Social History in 1984. After that the same year, he returned to Chile. Salazar made a breakthrough in 1985. The year 1985 is relatively unnoticed. The subjects he studied included labourers, peons, children Huachos, women and children. (1) Salazar is among the pioneers of the historiographic current known as Nueva Historia Social. Salazar considers history to be the most effective instrument to guide the social sphere. In an interview, he declares himself a "leftist and critically socio-historical historian" and rejected the title "Marxist"




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