From Two Republics to One Divided examines Peru's troubled
transition from colonial viceroyalty to postcolonial republic from
the local perspective of Andean peasant politics. Thurner's reading
of the Andean peasantry's engagement and disengagement with the
postcolonial state challenges long-standing interpretations of
Peruvian and modern Latin American history and casts a critical eye
toward Creole and Eurocentric ideas about citizenship and
nationalism. Working within an innovative and panoramic historical
and linguistic framework, Thurner examines the paradoxes of a
resurgent Andean peasant republicanism during the mid-1800s and
provides a critical revision of the meaning of republican Peru's
bloodiest peasant insurgency, the Atusparia Uprising of 1885.
Displacing ahistorical and nationalist readings of Inka or Andean
continuity, and undermining the long-held notion that the colonial
legacy is the dominant historical force shaping contemporary Andean
reality, Thurner suggests that in Peru, the postcolonial legacy of
Latin America's nation-founding nineteenth century transfigured,
and ultimately reinvented, the colonial legacy in its own image.
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