The People Are King: The Making of an Indigenous Andean Politics

ISBN-13: 9780195161601 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 312 str.

S. Elizabeth Penry

Recenzje

Elizabeth Penry's skillfully crafted study reconstructs the ways colonial Andean comunes or commons became grassroots laboratories where modern ideas of communal self-government and popular sovereignty gradually emerged. Her vivid analysis of village life in the highlands of colonial Charcas over three centuries reveals how commoner-led republics reconciled the ethos of solidarity and mutual obligation of Pre-Columbian kinship groups with Castilian concepts of town government, corporatism, and civic Catholicism, in a synthesis that drew from both traditions but was, in fact, reducible to neither of them. Inscribed in the best traditions of Andean history and ethnohistory, The People Are King is a much-needed contribution to the intricate ways indigenous community politics helped establish the foundations of the modern world.

O autorze

S. Elizabeth Penry is Assistant Professor of History and Latin American Studies at Fordham University.