In this Book
- The People and the King: The Comunero Revolution in Colombia, 1781
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
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.
Table of Contents
- Publisher's Note
- p. vi
- Illustrations
- p. ix
- Introduction
- pp. xvii-xix
- 3. The Crowd Riots
- pp. 39-49
- 5. A Utopia for the People
- pp. 67-78
- 6. A Utopia for the Nobles
- pp. 79-88
- 9. Confrontation at Puente Real de Velez
- pp. 112-121
- 11. "War, War, On to Santa Fe"
- pp. 131-141
- 12. Rendezvous in Zipaquira
- pp. 142-155
- 15. Jose Antonio Galan: Myth and Fact
- pp. 189-199
- 16. The Second Enterprise against Santa Fe
- pp. 200-211
- 18. The Carrot and the Stick
- pp. 223-238
- Note on the Sources
- p. 249
Additional Information
Copyright
1978