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

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 Túpac 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 Túpaj Katari. The great Andean insurrection has received scant attention by historians of the "Age of Revolution," but in this book Sinclair Thomson reveals the connections between ongoing local struggles over Indian community government and a larger anticolonial movement.

Author: Sinclair Thomson
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 01/08/2003
Pages: 412
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.08h x 5.74w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780299177942
ISBN10: 0299177947
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | World | Caribbean & Latin American
- History | Latin America | South America
- History | Europe | Ireland

About the Author
Sinclair Thomson is assistant professor of history at New York University.