{"product_id":"subverting-colonial-authority-9780822331469","title":"Subverting Colonial Authority","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores the changing forms of colonial domination and peasant politics in the Andean highlands from the 1740s (the starting point of large political and economic transformations) through the early 1780s, when a massive insurrection of the highland communities shook the foundations of Spanish rule.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSubverting Colonial Authority\u003c\/i\u003e is a major contribution to the ongoing revision of the history of colonial Latin America and of the development of the modern world in general. It should be read by scholars not only of Latin America but also of world and even European history.”—Karen Spalding, author of \u003ci\u003eHuarochirí: An Andean Society under Inca and Spanish Rule\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sergio Serulnikov analyzes the root causes, key moments, and bloody consequences of the massive indigenous revolt that nearly toppled Spanish rule in the southern Andes in the early 1780s. Exhaustively researched and cogently argued, this is a major work on the connection between everyday resistance to colonialism and revolutionary upheaval to end it forever. Essential reading for students and scholars of colonial rule everywhere.\"—John H. Coatsworth, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Political Legitimacy in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Andean Villages 19\u003cbr\u003e 2. From a Multiethnic Community to a Multiethnic Chieftanship: Florencia Lupa, Cacique of Moscari 54\u003cbr\u003e 3. Customs and Rules: Bourbon Rationalizing Projects and Social Conflicts in the 1770s 85\u003cbr\u003e 4. Disputed Images of Colonialism: Spanish Rule and Indian Subversion, 1777–1780 122\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Dilemmas of Self-Rule 157\u003cbr\u003e 6. In the Land of Heretics 186\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Andean Political Imagination in Times of Insurgency 215\u003cbr\u003e Notes 229\u003cbr\u003e References 267\u003cbr\u003e Index 277","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406033101143,"sku":"9780822331469","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822331469.jpg?v=1730494312","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/subverting-colonial-authority-9780822331469","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}