We Alone Will Rule

by Thomson, Sinclair

• ISBN13: 9780299177942
• ISBN10: 0299177947
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

In the same era as the American, French, and Haitian revolutions, a powerful anticolonial movement swept across the highland Andes in 17801781. Initially unified around Tupac Amaru, a descendant of Inka royalty from Cuzco, it reached its most radical and violent phase in the region of La Paz (present-day Bolivia) where Aymara-speaking Indians waged war against Europeans under the peasant commander Tupaj Katari. The great Andean insurrection has received scant attention by historians of the "Age of Revolution," but in this book Sinclair Thomson reveals the connections between ongoing local struggles over Indian community government and a larger anticolonial movement.

Author Biography

Sinclair Thomson is assistant professor of history at New York University.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	vii
Preface and Acknowledgments	ix
Contours for a History of Power and Political Transformation in the Aymara Highlands	3	(24)
The Inherited Structure of Authority	27	(37)
The Crisis of Andean Rule (I): Institutional and Intracommunity Strife	64	(42)
The Crisis of Andean Rule (II): The Reparto Connection and Breakdown of Mediation	106	(34)
Emancipation Projects and Dynamics of Native Insurgency (I): The Awaited Day of Andean Self-Rule	140	(40)
Emancipation Projects and Dynamics of Native Insurgency (II): The Storm of War under Tupaj Katari	180	(52)
The Aftermath of Insurgency and Renegotiation of Power	232	(37)
Conclusions and Continuations	269	(14)
Abbreviations	283	(2)
Notes	285	(66)
Bibliography	351	(22)
Index	373