Format:
1 Online-Ressource (294 pages)
ISBN:
9781316030226
Series Statement:
Cambridge Latin American Studies v.102
Content:
Rethinks the temporal, spatial, and conceptual boundaries that conventionally structure historical narratives about the Age of Revolution in Latin America
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Table -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Law, empire, and politics in the revolutionary age -- 1 Reform, revolution, and royalism in the northern Andes: New Granada and Popayán (1780-1825) -- Popayán and the northern Andes -- Imperial reform and local politics -- From reform to revolution -- 1808-1810: Sovereignty and war -- The Pacific royalist alliance -- Citizenship and constitutions after 1810 -- 1814-1820: The monarchical restoration and ''reconquest'' -- 2 Indian politics and Spanish justice in eighteenth-century Pasto -- Aguardiente reform, Indians, and local politics -- Changes to Indian government in the late eighteenth century -- The Túquerres revolt on paper -- The discourse of Indian loyalty -- Punishment and negotiation -- The politics of ''Indianness'' in Pasto -- 3 The laws of slavery and the politics of freedom in late-colonial Popayán -- The laws of slavery -- Slavery and freedom in late eighteenth-century Popayán -- Infanticide and slaves' strategies for justice in Barbacoas -- Slaves and the law ''in favor of servitude'' -- Community and authority in slavery and freedom -- 4 Negotiating loyalty: Royalism and liberalism among Pasto Indian communities (1809-1819) -- Royalism and Indian tribute, 1809-1810 -- The protector and Indian politics, 1811-1815 -- The duty of military and labor service -- ''The ruin of religious and pious customs'' -- Imperial change from below -- 5 Slaves in the defense of Popayán: War, royalism, and freedom (1809-1819) -- ''To enjoy the same liberty as loyal vassals, with subordination only to His Majesty'' -- Rumors of freedom in San Juan -- ''Moved by the judgment of their conscience''
Content:
Libertine behavior: ''the slaves act as if they were free'' -- Freedom, rights, and loyalty in the Age of Revolution -- 6 ''The yoke of the greatest of all tyrannical intruders, Bolívar'': The royalist rebels in Colombia's southwest (1820-1825) -- The end of royalism? -- Pasto divided -- The royalist rebels, Agustín Agualongo, and Colombian history -- Antirepublican royalism in 1822-1824 -- Pasto's invincible liberators -- Regional visions and rumors of victory -- Reverberations -- Royalism and change -- Conclusion: The law and social transformation in the early republic -- Bibliography -- Archives and Abbreviations -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107084148
Additional Edition:
Print version Echeverri, Marcela Indian and Slave Royalists in the Age of Revolution : Reform, Revolution, and Royalism in the Northern Andes, 1780–1825 New York : Cambridge University Press,c2016 ISBN 9781107084148
Language:
English
