The People Are King - The Making of an Indigenous Andean Politics (Paperback)

In the sixteenth century, in what is now modern-day Peru and Bolivia, Andean communities were forcibly removed from their traditional villages by Spanish colonizers and resettled in planned, self-governed towns modeled after those in Spain. But rather than merely conforming to Spanish cultural and political norms, indigenous Andeans adopted and gradually refashioned the religious practices dedicated to Christian saints and political institutions imposed on them, laying claim to their own rights and the sovereignty of the collective. The People Are King shows how common Andean people produced a new kind of civil society over three centuries of colonialism, merging their traditional understanding of collective life with the Spanish notion of the comun to demand participatory democracy. S. Elizabeth Penry explores how this hybrid concept of self-rule spurred the indigenous rebellions that erupted across Latin America in the eighteenth century, not only against Spanish rulers, but against native hereditary nobility, for acting against the will of the comuneros. Through the letters and documents of the Andean people themselves, The People Are King gives voice to a vision of community-based democracy that played a central role in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions and continues to galvanize indigenous movements in Bolivia today.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2019
Authors:	S. Elizabeth Penry (Assistant Professor of History)
Dimensions:	230 x 154 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	312
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-516161-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism Books > History > American history > General Books > History > World history > General
LSN:	0-19-516161-0
Barcode:	9780195161618

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