The People and the King: The Comunero Revolution in Colombia, 1781

by John Leddy Phelan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299072908
• ISBN13: 9780299072902
• Release Date: April 1978
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"