The people and the king : the Comunero Revolution in Colombia, 1781 / John Leddy Phelan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phelan, John Leddy, 1924-1976.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colombia--History--Insurrection of the Comuneros, 1781.

Colombia.

Colombia--Politics and government--To 1810.

Spain--Colonies--America--Administration.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 309 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Comunero Revolution in Colombia, 1781

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1978.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. Phelan argues that the Comunero revolution was not, as it has often been portrayed, a precursor of political independence, nor was it a frustrated social upheaval. The Comunero leaders and their followers did not advocate any basic reordering of society, Phelan concludes, but rather made an appeal for revolutionary reform within a traditionalist framework.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612904622

9781282904620

1282904620

9780299072933

0299072932

OCLC:

680040669

Publisher Number:

2027/heb00294 hdl