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Riot! - Tobacco, Reform and Violence in Eighteenth-Century Papantla, Mexico (Hardcover)
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Riot! - Tobacco, Reform and Violence in Eighteenth-Century Papantla, Mexico (Hardcover)
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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, this is the first book-length
study devoted to Papantla during the colonial era. The book 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 monopolisation 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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