The power of dissent : urban political culture and the fall of Spanish rule in Charcas /

The Power of Dissent examines the crisis of Spanish rule through the changing political culture of Chuquisaca (Bolivia), the most important city in the southern Andes. Sergio Serulnikov argues that in the four decades preceding the nineteenth-century wars of independence, a vibrant political public...

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Serulnikov, Sergio
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Zusammenfassung:
The Power of Dissent examines the crisis of Spanish rule through the changing political culture of Chuquisaca (Bolivia), the most important city in the southern Andes. Sergio Serulnikov argues that in the four decades preceding the nineteenth-century wars of independence, a vibrant political public sphere emerged, both patrician and plebeian. It manifested itself in a variety of social domains: protracted legal battles, collective petitions, popular revolts, the culture of manly honor, disputes over the rights of city council members and university faculty to hold free annual elections to choose their authorities, clashes between urban militias and Spanish soldiers, and contested public ceremonies and rituals of state power. In the process, a discernible aspiration took shape: the full participation of the local population in public affairs. The culture of dissent undermined the very premises of Bourbon absolutism and, more broadly, imperial control.
Umfang:
1 online resource (viii, 356 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Aug 2025).
ISBN:
1-009-61008-2
1-009-61010-4
1-009-61005-8
Schlagworte:
Sucre (Bolivia) > Politics and government > 18th century.
Bolivia > History > To 1809.
Spain > Colonies > America > Administration.
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