Méndez / Cecilia Mendez The Plebeian Republic

The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State, 1820–1850
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8669-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

Examines the politics of a 19th c. peasant revolt in Peru, looking at the organization and practice of government by the rebels to examine what a largely illiterate population understood by terms such as "nation" and showing the rebellion's sign

Autoren/Hrsg.

Méndez, Cecilia

Cecilia Mendez, Mendez

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xiii

1. Introduction 1

2. The Republic's First Peasant Uprising 30

3. Royalism in the Crisis of Independence 52

4. Words and Images: The People and the King 75

5. The World of the Peasants: Landscapes and Networks 111

6. Government in Uchuraccay

7. The Plebeian Republic

Epilogue 234

Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography 315

Index 329

Über Autor(innen)

Cecilia Méndez is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Los trabajadores guaneros del Perú, 1840–1879.