Power of Dissent - Urban Political Culture and the Fall of Spanish Rule in Charcas

This book explores the crisis of Spanish rule through the advent of a culture of popular contestation and dissent in Chuquisaca, the most important city in the southern Andes, in the decades preceding the wars of independence. It will interest students and scholars of Latin American history and the age of Atlantic revolutions.

List of contents

Introductory essay: politics and society in the late colonial world, historiographical dialogues; 1. Citizens and magistrates; 2. Public dissension; 3. The paradoxes of loyalty; 4. The revolt against the company of savoy; 5. The revolt against the company of Extremadura; 6. The election of a rector; 7. Suppressing politics; 8. Contentious autonomies; 9. The crisis before the crisis; 10. The uses of carlotism; 11. The uprising; which revolution? final considerations; Bibliography.

About the author

Sergio Serulnikov is Professor at the Universidad de San Andrés and researcher at the National Scientific Council of Argentina. He is author of Subverting Colonial Authority: Challenges to Spanish Rule in Eighteenth-Century Southern Andes (2003).

Product details

• Authors: Sergio (Universidad De San Andres) Serulnikov, Serulnikov Sergio
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.07.2025
• EAN: 9781009610070
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0961007-0
• No. of pages: 370
• Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Latin America, European History, Spain, HISTORY / Latin America / General, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, C 1700 To C 1800