Gabriel

Gabriel Salazar Vergara (born 31 January 1936) is A Chilean historian in Chile. In Chile, he is most well-known for his work about social history and understanding of the social movements. These include the recent student protests from 2006 and the 2011. Salazar was born into a lower class family, he studied history, sociology and the philosophy department in the prestigious Universidad de Chile, and for time he was working as an assistant for historical historian Mario Gongora and classical historian Hector Herrera Cajas. Salazar was one of the Revolutionary Left Movement member from 1973 to 1973. The military tortured him in Villa Grimaldi during that year. After being released from the prison camp for military He fled to England. He was awarded a scholarship for further studies at the University of Hull. In the same university, he was awarded the PhD qualification in Economic and Social History in 1984. Next year he returned to Chile. Salazar was relatively unknown until 1985 when he made his debut. His subjects of research have included laborers, peons proletariats, child huachos[A] and women. 1. Salazar is among the pioneers of the historiographic movement known as Nueva Historia Social. Salazar regards history as an important tool for social action. Salazar has stated that he's liberal and critical historian during an interview. Salazar resisted the "Marxist term."