Name: The Power of Dissent. Urban Political Culture and the Fall of Spanish Rule in Charcas
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Author: Sergio Serulnikov
ISBN: 9781009610070

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The Power of Dissent. Urban Political Culture and the Fall of Spanish Rule in Charcas

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Author

Sergio Serulnikov

Collection

Cambridge Latin American Studies

Year

2025

Pages

370

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781009610070

The Power of Dissent. Urban Political Culture and the Fall of Spanish Rule in Charcas

Sergio Serulnikov (Author) · Cambridge University Press · Hardcover

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Synopsis "The Power of Dissent. Urban Political Culture and the Fall of Spanish Rule in Charcas"

This book explores the crisis of Spanish rule through the advent of a culture of popular contestation and dissent in Chuquisaca, the most important city in the southern Andes, in the decades preceding the wars of independence. It will interest students and scholars of Latin American history and the age of Atlantic revolutions.

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.