Marcela Echeverri

Popular Royalists, Empire, and Politics in Southwestern New Granada, 1809 – 1819

History Department, the John Carter Brown Library, and, in its final stages, through grants from Harvard’s Atlantic History Seminar and the Research Foundation of the City University of New York. Earlier versions of this work were presented at Harvard’s International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World (August 2008), the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis Seminar (October 2008), the City University of New York at Staten Island’s History Department Workshop (November 2008), and University of Texas Austin’s Institute for Historical Studies Independence and Decolonization Conference (April 2010). I thank all the participants for their comments, especially Kenneth Andrien, Indrani Chatterjee, Frederick Cooper, Greg Grandin, Samira Haj, Julie Livingston, Zachary Morgan, Nicolas Ronderos, Sinclair Thomson, Camilla Townsend, Eric Van Young, and the anonymous readers for HAHR. 1. The viceroyalty of New Granada replaced the New Kingdom of Granada in 1717. Within New Granada there were two audiencias or high courts, one in Santa Fe (the capital of the viceroyalty) and the other in Quito. The southwestern province of Popayán was

Revolution in the Andes: The Age of Túpac Amaru by Sergio Serulnikov, and: The Tupac Amaru Rebellion by Charles F. Walker (review)

The Tupac Amaru rebellion was one of the most significant events in the history of the Spanish empire. It was the first symptom, and a massive one, of an emerging crisis of Spanish rule in the Americas at the end of the eighteenth century. The rebellion began in 1780 in Chayanta, a rural village in northern Potosı́, and during the following three years expanded northward, encompassing the region around Lake Titicaca, between the cities of Cuzco and La Paz. Its regional evolution reveals a vital web of political relationships among the Aymara and Quechua indigenous people. It also speaks of the significance for Spanish rule of native political expectations and practices in the Andes at the end of the eighteenth century. The two books under review here, recent works by Sergio Serulnikov and Charles Walker, are impressive evidence that the historiography on this rebellion has expanded in new directions in recent decades.