Plebeian Republic The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State, 1820-1850

Name: Plebeian Republic The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State, 1820-1850
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ISBN: 9780822334415

ISBN-10: 0822334410

ISBN-13: 9780822334415

Edition: 2005

Authors: Cecilia Mï¿½ndez, Cecilia Mï¿½ndez

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Combining social and political history, The Plebeian Republic challenges well-established interpretations of state-making, rural society, and caudillo politics during the early years of Peru's republic. Cecilia Mendez presents the first in-depth reconstruction and analysis of the Huanta rebellion, an uprising of peasants from the Huanta province in the department of Ayacucho against the recently established Peruvain republic between 1825 and 1828. By situating the rebellion within the broader context of early nineteenth-century Peruvian politics and tracing Huanta peasants' transformation from monarchist rebels to liberal guerrillas, Mendez complicates understandings of what it meant to be…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 4/21/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.14" wide x 8.98" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Illustrations


Acknowledgments



Introduction



The Republic's First Peasant Uprising



Royalism in the Crisis of Independence



Words and Images: The People and the King



The World of the Peasants: Landscapes and Networks



Government in Uchuraccay



The Plebeian Republic


Epilogue


Abbreviations


Notes


Bibliography


Index