Felipe Castro Gutierrez Libros

Abundantly illustrated, popularly written account of the Indian rebellions and the varying Spanish attempts to mediate or to repress them. Rebellions reminded the Spaniards that they were not dealing with a passive and obedient population, and caused them to moderate their demands for tribute, personal service, and work in the mines –Handbook of Latin American

Based in part on a recently discovered collection of legal documents in the Biblioteca de la Real Academia de Historia in Madrid, this revisionist version of the reasons for the 1767-68 rebellions in Michoacán, San Luis Potosí, and Guanajuato argues that the expulsion of the Jesuits did not cause the rebellions, but that they derived