Gabriel
Gabriel Salazar Vergara was born on the 31st of January, 1936. Vergara is Chilean historiography. In Chile, he is best known for his research on social history and the interpretation of social movements. These include the recent student protests in 2006 and 2011. Salazar was born in a class-less family. He studied history, sociology , and philosophy at Universidad de Chile, and during his time, he served as assistant of his mentors, historian Mario Gongora and classical historian Hector Herrera Cajas. [1] Salazar used to be an active member of the Revolutionary Left Movement until 1973. The military tortured him in Villa Grimaldi during that year. Then, in 1976, he was freed from a prison camp for military and went to exile in the United Kingdom. He was awarded a scholarship for further studies at University of Hull. He earned an PhD from the department of Economic and Social History from that university in 1984. In the following year, he returned Chile. Unknown to many, Salazar's breakthrough happened in the year 1985. He was a scholar of peons and working class and proletarians. Salazar was one of the founding members of Nueva Historia Social, a historiographic movement. Salazar believes that history is an instrument for actions in society. In an interview, he declared himself a "leftist or critical socio-historical historian" and rejected the title "Marxist"




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