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Riot! - Tobacco, Reform, and Violence in Eighteenth-Century Papantla, Mexico (Paperback)
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Riot! - Tobacco, Reform, and Violence in Eighteenth-Century Papantla, Mexico (Paperback)
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Riot!: Tobacco, Reform, and Violence in Eighteenth-Century
Papantla, Mexico is an exploration of the Totonac native community
of Papantla, Veracruz, during the last half of the eighteenth
century. Told through the lens of violent revolt, Riot! is the
first book-length study devoted to Papantla during the colonial
era. Riot! tells the story of a native community confronting
significant disruption of its agricultural tradition, and the
violence that change provoked. Papantlas story is told in the form
of an investigation into the political, social, and ethnic
experience of an agrarian community. The Bourbon monopolization of
tobacco in 1764 disturbed a fragile balance, and pushed long-term
native frustrations to the point of violence. Through the stories
of four uprisings, Jake Frederick examines the Totonacs
increasingly difficult economic environment, their view of justice,
and their political tactics. Riot! argues that for the native
community of Papantla, the nature of colonial rule was, even in the
waning decades of the colonial era, a process of negotiation rather
than subjugation. The second half of the eighteenth century saw an
increase in collective violence across the Spanish American
colonies as communities reacted to the strains imposed by the
various Bourbon reforms. Riot! provides a much needed exploration
of what the colony-wide policy reforms of Bourbon Spain meant on
the ground in rural communities in New Spain. The narrative of each
uprising draws the reader into the crisis as it unfolds, providing
an entree into an analysis of the event. The focus on the community
provides a new understanding of the demographics of this rural
community, including an account of the as yet unexamined black
population of Papantla.
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