The Tupac Amaru Rebellion - Softcover

Charles F. Walker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674659996 ISBN 13: 9780674659995

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Charles Walker examines the largest rebellion in the history of Spain's American empire, led by Latin America's most iconic revolutionary, Tupac Amaru, and his wife. It began in 1780 as a multiclass alliance against European-born usurpers but degenerated into a vicious caste war, leaving a legacy that still influences South American politics today.

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Review:

"[This is] the first extended survey of the causes and the course of the Tupac Amaru rebellion to appear in English since 1966 [It] is a lucid and accessible survey in which Walker skillfully blends narrative with explanation to construct a harrowing story of violence and atrocities on an enormous scale [It] will give Anglophone readers a perceptive and reliable account of the terrible events that occurred far away from what they naturally regard as the principal center of action at that time, the British North American colonies, a mere 322,000 square miles in size, as compared with an Andean surface area approaching two million. --J. H. Elliott New York Review of Books (10/23/2014)

"The rebellion receives masterly treatment from Walker." --Chosen as a History Book of 2014 in Financial Times

About the Author:

Charles F. Walker is the MacArthur Foundation Endowed Chair in International Human Rights and Director of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas at the University of California, Davis.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0674659996
• ISBN 13: 9780674659995
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376