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"Revolution in the Andes is the best single account that I have read of the great uprisings led by Túpac Amaru and the other neo-Incan rebels. It is likely to become a much-read book among scholars of Latin America history, culture, and politics, especially Andeanists."—Orin Starn, author of Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes
"In this outstanding book, Sergio Serulnikov, one of the foremost scholars of the late-colonial Andes, digests a large, multilingual historiography into a single cohesive narrative, framing the largest indigenous revolution of the New World after the Conquest for a wide audience. At the same time, he offers specialists provocative insights and attention to nuance, complexity, and local heterogeneity."—Jeremy Adelman, author of Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World
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Revolution in the Andes is an in-depth history of the Túpac Amaru insurrection, the largest and most threatening indigenous challenge to Spanish rule in the Andean world after the Conquest. Between 1780 and 1782, insurgent armies were organized throughout the Andean region. Some of the oldest and most populous cities in this region—including Cusco, La Paz, Puno, and Oruro—were besieged, assaulted, or occupied. Huge swaths of the countryside fell under control of the rebel forces. While essentially an indigenous movement, the rebellion sometimes attracted mestizo and Creole support for ousting the Spanish and restoring rule of the Andes to the land's ancestral owners. Sergio Serulnikov chronicles the uprisings and the ensuing war between rebel forces and royalist armies, emphasizing that the insurrection was comprised of several regional movements with varied ideological outlooks, social makeup, leadership structures, and expectations of change.