The article attempts to reinterpret the Galician uprising of 1846. The main thesis assumes that it was a violent culmination of a social conflict, which resulted in a genocidal event. The first section of this paper strives to explain this complex situation by presenting long-term economic, political, paramilitary and ideological processes. In the second part, the violent and organizational nature of the riots is explained using typologies and concepts taken from the microsociological theory of collective violence. The summary contains conclusions and a discussion concerning alternative paths of building national and civic identity.
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