Sergio Serulnikov

The Power of Dissent

Urban Political Culture and the Fall of Spanish Rule in Charcas

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the crisis of Spanish rule through the advent of a culture of popular contestation and dissent in Chuquisaca, the most important city in the southern Andes, in the decades preceding the wars of independence. It will interest students and scholars of Latin American history and the age of Atlantic revolutions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009610070
• ISBN-10: 1009610074
• Artikelnr.: 72880197

Autorenporträt

Sergio Serulnikov is Professor at the Universidad de San Andrés and researcher at the National Scientific Council of Argentina. He is author of Subverting Colonial Authority: Challenges to Spanish Rule in Eighteenth-Century Southern Andes (2003).

Inhaltsangabe

Introductory essay: politics and society in the late colonial world, historiographical dialogues
1. Citizens and magistrates
2. Public dissension
3. The paradoxes of loyalty
4. The revolt against the company of savoy
5. The revolt against the company of Extremadura
6. The election of a rector
7. Suppressing politics
8. Contentious autonomies
9. The crisis before the crisis
10. The uses of carlotism
11. The uprising
which revolution? final considerations
Bibliography.