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Informationen zum Autor Marcela Echeverri is Assistant Professor of Latin American History and MacMillan Research Fellow at Yale University, Connecticut. Klappentext Rethinks the temporal, spatial, and conceptual boundaries that conventionally structure historical narratives about the Age of Revolution in Latin America. Zusammenfassung Marcela Echeverri draws a picture of the royalist region of Popayán (modern-day Colombia) that reveals deep chronological layers and multiple social and spatial textures. She uses royalism as a lens to rethink the temporal, spatial, and conceptual boundaries that conventionally structure historical narratives about the Age of Revolution. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Law, empire, and politics in the revolutionary age; 1. Reform, revolution, and royalism in the Northern Andes - New Granada and Popayán, 1780-1825; 2. Indian politics and Spanish justice in eighteenth-century Pasto; 3. The laws of slavery and the politics of freedom in late-colonial Popayán; 4. Negotiating loyalty - royalism and liberalism among Pasto Indian communities (1809-19); 5. Slaves in the defense of Popayán - war, royalism, and freedom (1809-19); 6. 'The yoke of the greatest of all tyrannical intruders, Bolívar' - the royalist rebels in Colombia's southwest (1820-5); Conclusion. The law and social transformation in the early republic.
