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Riot and Rebellion in Colonial Spanish America

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THE PEOPLE AND THE KING: THE COMUNERO REVOLUTION IN COLOMBIA, 1781. By PHELANJOHN LEDDY. (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978. Pp. 309. $25.00.)

DRINKING, HOMICIDE AND REBELLION IN COLONIAL MEXICAN VILLAGES. By TAYLORWILLIAM B. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1979. Pp. 250. $16.50.)

SUBLEVACIONES INDÍGENAS EN LA AUDIENCIA DE QUITO, DESDE COMIENZOS DEL SIGLO XVIII HASTA FINALES DE LA COLONIA. By YÁNEZSEGUNDO MORENO. (University of Bonn, Bonner Amerikanistische Studien, 1976.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Anthony McFarlane*
Affiliation:
University of Warwick
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Copyright © 1982 by the University of Texas Press

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Notes

1. Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques (Penguin Books, 1976), p. 392.

2. Ibid., p. 303.

3. For a more complete statement of these problems, see James Lockhart, “The Social History of Colonial Spanish America,” LARR 7, no. 1 (1972):6–46.

4. E. P. Thompson, “The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century, Past and Present, no. 50 (Feb. 1971):78.

5. A suggestive outline of the character of these ideas and their importance in shaping colonial political attitudes is found in Richard Morse, “The Heritage of Latin America,” in L. B. Hartz, ed., The Founding of New Societies (New York, 1964), pp. 151–59.

6. George Rudé, Ideology and Popular Protest (London, 1980), p. 28.

7. See Leon G. Campbell, “Recent Research on Andean Peasant Revolts, 1750–1820,” LARR 14, no. 1 (1979):30–34.

8. For a fuller analysis of the special role of indios forasteros in Andean rebellions than is given by Moreno Yánez, see O. Cornblit, “Society and Mass Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Peru and Bolivia,” in R. Carr, ed., Latin American Affairs, St. Antony's Papers, no. 22, Oxford, 1970, pp. 9–44.