“On the move and immediately”: Deployment and outcome of the troops of the southern provinces in the Chilean civil war of 1891: recruitment, problems and social consequences.

Abstract

The following article consists of an analysis concerning to the deployment and outcome balmacedist troops formed in the provinces of southern Chile during the civil war of 1891, which seeks to distinguish and describe the types of mechanisms of recruitment—forced and voluntary—the resistances, problems and consequences of those who were part of the thickness of the regular army in that conflict between elites: the troops; This is understood as institutional rankings at the same time as—in the socio-economic context of the last third of the 19th century— those subjects who largely belonged to the lower class folks.