The World of Tupac Amaru: Conflict, Community, and Identity in C

The World of Tpac AmaruConflict, Community, and Identity in Colonial Peru\nAuthor(s): Ward Stavig\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9780803292550, 978-0803292550\nSynopsis\nEqually concerned with the lives of ordinary Andean people and sweeping historical processes, this book unveils a complex colonial world of indigenous villagers and their Spanish neighbors from the ground up and in the process examines one of the most significant indigenous uprisings in the Americas. This rebellion, known by the name of its leader, Tpac Amaru, ignited in colonial Cuzco near the former Inca capital during the late eighteenth century [tel] and spread rapidly throughout much of the Andes. Led by the descendant of the last Inca ruler, the rebellion severely disrupted the colonial economy and proved to be the most serious challenge to Spanish authority in Latin America since the sixteenth [url] on the Cuzco provin.