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 17801781. Initially unified around Tupac 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 Tupaj 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.Thomson, Sinclair is the author of 'We Alone Will Rule Native Andean Politics in the Age of Insurgency', published 2003 under ISBN 9780299177942 and ISBN 0299177947.