Author : John Leddy Phelan
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299072932
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The People and the King by : John Leddy Phelan
Download or read book The People and the King written by John Leddy Phelan and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.