Native insurgencies and the genocidal impulse in the Americas / Nicholas A. Robins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robins, Nicholas A., 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pueblo Revolt, 1680.

Yucatán (Mexico : State)--History--Caste War, 1847-1855.

Yucatán (Mexico : State).

Peru--History--Insurrection of Tupac Amaru, 1780-1781.

Peru.

La Paz (Bolivia)--History--Siege, 1781.

La Paz (Bolivia).

Túpac Amaru, José Gabriel, 1738-1781.

Túpac Amaru, José Gabriel.

Tupak Katari, 1750-1781.

Tupak Katari.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book investigates three Indian revolts in the Americas: the 1680 uprising of the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish; the Great Rebellion in Bolivia, 1780--82; and the Caste War of Yucatan that began in 1849 and was not finally crushed until 1903. Nicholas A. Robins examines their causes, course, nature, leadership, and goals. He finds common features: they were revitalization movements that were both millenarian and exterminatory in their means and objectives; they sought to restore native rule an

Contents:

Introduction

Millennialism, nativism, and genocide

Creation through extermination : native efforts to eliminate the Hispanic presence in the Americas

Nativism, caste wars, and the exterminatory impulse

Rebellion and relative deprivation

Leadership and division

Atrocity as metaphor : the symbolic language of rebellion

Cultural assimilation in the native world

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references p. ([275]-286) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-07266-8

9786612072666

0-253-11167-6

OCLC:

476016271