We Alone Will Rule: Native Andean Politics in the Age of Insurgency

by Sinclair Thomson

Book Overview

In the same era as the American, French, and Haitian revolutions, a powerful anticolonial movement swept across the highland Andes in 1780-1781. Initially unified around T pac Amaru, a descendant of Inka royalty from Cuzco, it reached its most radical and violent phase in the region of La Paz (present-day Bolivia) where Aymara-speaking Indians waged war against Europeans under the peasant commander T paj Katari. The great Andean insurrection has received...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299177947
• ISBN13: 9780299177942
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 9.1"