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Native insurgencies and the genocidal impulse in the Americas / / Nicholas A. Robins



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Autore: Robins Nicholas A. <1964-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Native insurgencies and the genocidal impulse in the Americas / / Nicholas A. Robins Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2005
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
Disciplina: 303.6/4/0980903
Soggetto topico: Pueblo Revolt, 1680
Soggetto geografico: Yucatan (Mexico : State) History Caste War, 1847-1855
Peru History Insurrection of Tupac Amaru, 1780-1781
La Paz (Bolivia) History Siege, 1781
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references p. ([275]-286) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Millennialism, nativism, and genocide -- Creation through extermination : native efforts to eliminate the Hispanic presence in the Americas -- Nativism, caste wars, and the exterminatory impulse -- Rebellion and relative deprivation -- Leadership and division -- Atrocity as metaphor : the symbolic language of rebellion -- Cultural assimilation in the native world -- Conclusion.
Sommario/riassunto: This book investigates three Indian revolts in the Americas: the 1680 uprising of the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish; the Great Rebellion in Bolivia, 1780--82; and the Caste War of Yucatan that began in 1849 and was not finally crushed until 1903. Nicholas A. Robins examines their causes, course, nature, leadership, and goals. He finds common features: they were revitalization movements that were both millenarian and exterminatory in their means and objectives; they sought to restore native rule an
Titolo autorizzato: Native insurgencies and the genocidal impulse in the Americas  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-07266-8
9786612072666
0-253-11167-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910828655803321
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