Revolution in the Andes - The Age of Tupac Amaru

Sergio Serulnikov offers an in-depth history of the Túpac Amaru insurrection (1780-82), the largest and most threatening indigenous challenge to Spanish rule in the Andean world after the Conquest.

List of contents

Foreword / Charles F. Walker xi

1. The Violence of Facts 1

2. The Violence of Time 5

3. Indian Communities Do Politics 17

4. Rituals of Justice, Acts of Subversion 31

5. The Idea of the Inca 35

6. Cusco under Siege 49

7. "Perverted in These Revolutions" 55

8. The Road of Chuquisaca 65

9. Creole Tupamaristas 73

10. Radicalized Violence in Upper Peru 91

11. The Death of Túpac Amaru 99

12. The Heirs 107

13. "Tomás Túpac-Katari, Inca King" 115

14. War against the Q'aras 121

15. The Battle for La Paz 125

16. The End of an Era 135

17. The Stubbornness of Facts 139

Glossary 143

References 147

Index 155

About the author

Sergio Serulnikov

Summary

Sergio Serulnikov offers an in-depth history of the Tupac Amaru insurrection (1780-82), the largest and most threatening indigenous challenge to Spanish rule in the Andean world after the Conquest.

Product details

• Authors: Sergio Serulnikov, Sergio/ Frye Serulnikov
• Assisted by: David Frye (Translation)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.09.2013
• EAN: 9780822354987
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5498-7
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Latin America in Translation; Latin America in Translation/E; Latin America in Translation; Latin America in Translation/E
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous