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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958013203321

Autore

Phelan John Leddy <1924-1976.>

Titolo

The people and the king : the Comunero Revolution in Colombia, 1781 / / John Leddy Phelan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis. : , : University of Wisconsin Press, , 1978

ISBN

9786612904622

9781282904620

1282904620

9780299072933

0299072932

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 309 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

986.1/02

Soggetti

Colombia History Insurrection of the Comuneros, 1781

Colombia Politics and government To 1810

Spain Colonies America Administration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

In The People and the King, John Leddy Phelan reexamines a well-known but long misunderstood event in eighteenth-century Colombia. When the Spanish colonial bureaucratic system of conciliation broke down, indigenous groups resorted to armed revolt to achieve their political ends. As Phelan demonstrates in these pages, the crisis of 1781 represented a constitutional clash between imperial centralization and colonial decentralization. Phelan argues that the Comunero revolution was not, as it has often been portrayed, a precursor of political independence, nor was it a frustrated social upheaval. The Comunero leaders and their followers did not advocate any basic reordering of society, Phelan concludes, but rather made an appeal for revolutionary reform within a traditionalist framework.