Nicholas A. Robins

Native Insurgencies and the Genocidal Impulse in the Americas

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This book investigates three Indian revolts in the Americas: the 1680uprising 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 finallycrushed until 1903. Nicholas A. Robins examines their causes, course, nature, leadership, and goals. He finds common features: they were revitalization movementsthat were both millenarian and exterminatory in their means and objectives; theysought to restore native rule and traditions to their societies; and they weremovements born of despair and oppression that were sustained by the belief that theywould witness the… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-253-34616-2
EAN: 9780253346162
Produktnummer: 1473067
Verlag: Indiana Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Masse: H24.2 cm x B16.6 cm x D2.3 cm 626 g
Gewicht: 626
Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.

Über den Autor

Nicholas A. Robins is a lecturer in the Department of History at North Carolina State University. He is author of Genocide and Millennialism in Upper Peru and The Culture of Conflict in Modern Cuba and editor (with Adam Jones) of Genocides by the Oppressed: Subaltern Genocide in Theory and Practice (IU Press, 2009).