Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figure, maps, and tables
- Preface
- Map 1 Present-day Bolivia and surrounds
- Map 2 Principal routes of the Viceroyalty of Peru (second half of the eighteenth century)
- 1 Oruro between two epochs: a mining cycle
- 2 Under Spanish law
- 3 Oruro in 1741: details of a stormy election
- 4 The people
- 5 “Madmen, comedians, and hypocrites”
- 6 Captains of shipwreck
- 7 Returning to the known
- 8 “The fruits of the earth”
- 9 The end of an epoch: the Indian uprisings of 1780–1781
- 10 Oruro in the economic and geopolitical context of the epoch (c. 1780–1781)
- 11 The Oruro uprising
- 12 The voice of the rebels
- 13 Picking up the pieces
- Appendix A Indian raids on Oruro, 1781: testimonies
- Appendix B Testimonies of inhabitants of the city
- Appendix C Table of public jobs in Oruro, 1730–1784
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Appendix A - Indian raids on Oruro, 1781: testimonies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figure, maps, and tables
- Preface
- Map 1 Present-day Bolivia and surrounds
- Map 2 Principal routes of the Viceroyalty of Peru (second half of the eighteenth century)
- 1 Oruro between two epochs: a mining cycle
- 2 Under Spanish law
- 3 Oruro in 1741: details of a stormy election
- 4 The people
- 5 “Madmen, comedians, and hypocrites”
- 6 Captains of shipwreck
- 7 Returning to the known
- 8 “The fruits of the earth”
- 9 The end of an epoch: the Indian uprisings of 1780–1781
- 10 Oruro in the economic and geopolitical context of the epoch (c. 1780–1781)
- 11 The Oruro uprising
- 12 The voice of the rebels
- 13 Picking up the pieces
- Appendix A Indian raids on Oruro, 1781: testimonies
- Appendix B Testimonies of inhabitants of the city
- Appendix C Table of public jobs in Oruro, 1730–1784
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
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- Power and Violence in the Colonial CityOruro from the Mining Renaissance to the Rebellion of Tupac Amaru (1740–1782), pp. 173 - 192Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995