Indian and Slave Royalists in the Age of Revolution - Reform, Revolution, and Royalism in the Northern Andes, 1780-1825

Royalist Indians and slaves in the northern Andes engaged with the ideas of the Age of Revolution (1780-1825), such as citizenship and freedom. Although generally ignored in recent revolution-centered versions of the Latin American independence processes, their story is an essential part of the history of the period. In Indian and Slave Royalists in the Age of Revolution, 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. Looking at royalism and liberal reform in the northern Andes, she suggests that profound changes took place within the royalist territories. These emerged as a result of the negotiation of the rights of local people, Indians and slaves, with the changing monarchical regime.

List of contents

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.

About the author

Marcela Echeverri is Assistant Professor of Latin American History and MacMillan Research Fellow at Yale University, Connecticut.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Marcela Echeverri, Marcela (Yale University Echeverri
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781107446007
• ISBN: 978-1-107-44600-7
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Cambridge Latin American Studi; Cambridge Latin American Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, Colonialism & imperialism, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Colonialism and imperialism, Andes, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Population & demography, Population and Demography, C 1700 To C 1800, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Andes mountains