People Are King - The Making of an Indigenous Andean Politics

The People are King is the first ethnohistorical study of the transformation of Andean communities over three centuries, from the Inca era into the nineteenth century, which traces the movement of indigenous people toward self-government.

About the author

S. Elizabeth Penry is Assistant Professor of History and Latin American Studies at Fordham University.

Summary

The People are King is the first ethnohistorical study of the transformation of Andean communities over three centuries, from the Inca era into the nineteenth century, which traces the movement of indigenous people toward self-government.

Additional text

Elizabeth Penry's skillfully crafted study reconstructs the ways colonial Andean comunes or commons became grassroots laboratories where modern ideas of communal self-government and popular sovereignty gradually emerged. Her vivid analysis of village life in the highlands of colonial Charcas over three centuries reveals how commoner-led republics reconciled the ethos of solidarity and mutual obligation of Pre-Columbian kinship groups with Castilian concepts of town government, corporatism, and civic Catholicism, in a synthesis that drew from both traditions but was, in fact, reducible to neither of them. Inscribed in the best traditions of Andean history and ethnohistory, The People Are King is a much-needed contribution to the intricate ways indigenous community politics helped establish the foundations of the modern world.

Product details

• Authors: S. Elizabeth Penry, S. Elizabeth (Assistant Professor of Histor Penry
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9780195161601
• ISBN: 978-0-19-516160-1
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Colonialism & imperialism, History: earliest times to present day, Colonialism and imperialism, General and world history, History of the Americas