Revolution in the Andes

Sergio Serulnikov is Professor of History at the University of San AndrÉs in Buenos Aires and researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientÍficas y TÉcnicas de la Argentina. His previous books include Subverting Colonial Authority: Challenges to Spanish Rule in Eighteenth-Century Southern Andes, published by Duke University Press.

• Foreword / Charles F. Walker xi1. The Violence of Facts 12. The Violence of Time 53. Indian Communities Do Politics 174. Rituals of Justice, Acts of Subversion 315. The Idea of the Inca 356. Cusco under Siege 497. "Perverted in These Revolutions" 558. The Road of Chuquisaca 659. Creole Tupamaristas 7310. Radicalized Violence in Upper Peru 9111. The Death of Túpac Amaru 9912. The Heirs 10713. "Tomás Túpac-Katari, Inca King" 11514. War against the Q'aras 12115. The Battle for La Paz 12516. The End of an Era 13517. The Stubbornness of Facts 139Glossary 143References 147Index 155

"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 "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 “This well-written book is accessible for undergraduates while analytically rich enough to satisfy experts.”  - E. E. O'Connor (Choice) “Revolution in the Andesoffers us a fluid political narrative of events that is framed in wider structural context, sensitive to local dynamics, and penetrating in its analysis. It is written accessibly to engage a nonscholarly audience and is rendered into English with uncommon skill and elegance by translator David Frye. Ultimately, Serulnikov offers a new vision of how the political thinking and mobilization of Andean insurgents.” - Sinclair Thomson (Hispanic American Historical Review) “In this thin volume, Serulnikov manages to present an excellent overview of the insurrection as well as a nuanced discussion of regional and local variations. He references a large historiography dating from the 1950s to the present, and an array of archival material, including quotations from TÚpac Amaru II and imperial officials.”- Michael J. Gonzalez (Journal of Interdisciplinary History) "Geared to undergraduate and popular audiences, Revolution in the Andes features meticulous accounts of complex events in plain, lucid language." - Jason B. McClure (Michigan War Studies Review) “Serulnikov succeeds admirably in encapsulating a chronologically and geographically coherent narrative of revolution from 1780 to 1782, which is easily accessible to readers with no prior knowledge.” - Marc Eagle (History: Reviews of New Books) “An exceptional synthesis of the Age of Andean Insurrection. Apt for specialists and nonspecialists alike.” - José Carlos De la Puente Luna (Latin American Research Review)