"An innovative, eloquent, and thoroughly researched study on the political culture of an important Andean region during the transition from colonial to republican order."--Nils Jacobsen, University of Illinois
Provides an interpretation of the end of Spanish domination in Peru and that country's transition to an autonomous republican state. Placing the indigenous population at the centre of the analysis, this book shows how the Indian peasants played a role in the battle against colonialism and in the political clashes of the early republican period.