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Subverting Colonial Authority - Challenges to Spanish Rule in Eighteenth-Century Southern Andes (Paperback)
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Subverting Colonial Authority - Challenges to Spanish Rule in Eighteenth-Century Southern Andes (Paperback)
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This innovative political history provides a new perspective on the
enduring question of the origins and nature of the Indian revolts
against the Spanish that exploded in the southern Andean highlands
in the 1780s. Subverting Colonial Authority focuses on one of the
main-but least studied-centers of rebel activity during the age of
the Tupac Amaru revolution: the overwhelmingly indigenous Northern
Potosi region of present-day Bolivia. Tracing how routine political
conflict developed into large-scale violent upheaval, Sergio
Serulnikov explores the changing forms of colonial domination and
peasant politics in the area from the 1740s (the starting point of
large political and economic transformations) through the early
1780s, when a massive insurrection of the highland communities
shook the foundations of Spanish rule. Drawing on court records,
government papers, personal letters, census documents, and other
testimonies from Bolivian and Argentine archives, Subverting
Colonial Authority addresses issues that illuminate key aspects of
indigenous rebellion, European colonialism, and Andean cultural
history. Serulnikov analyzes long-term patterns of social conflict
rooted in local political cultures and regionally based power
relations. He examines the day-to-day operations of the colonial
system of justice within the rural villages as well as the sharp
ideological and political strife among colonial ruling groups.
Highlighting the emergence of radical modes of anticolonial thought
and ethnic cooperation, he argues that Andean peasants were able to
overcome entrenched tendencies toward internal dissension and
fragmentation in the very process of marshaling both law and force
to assert their rights and hold colonial authorities accountable.
Along the way, Serulnikov shows, they not only widened the scope of
their collective identities but also contradicted colonial ideas of
indigenous societies as either secluded cultures or pliant objects
of European rule.
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