Power and Violence in the Colonial City: Oruro from the Mining Renaissance to the Rebellion of Tupac Amaru (1740-1782)

by Oscar Cornbilt and Oscar Cornblit

Book Overview

This book examines the characteristics of political power in the cities of the colonial Spanish Empire between the 1740s and 1780s, based on a detailed study of the mining city of Oruro in Alto Peru... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521533155
• ISBN13: 9780521533157
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"