Sergio Serulnikov is Assistant Professor of History at Boston College.

• Acknowledgments viiIntroduction 11. Political Legitimacy in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Andean Villages 192. From a Multiethnic Community to a Multiethnic Chieftanship: Florencia Lupa, Cacique of Moscari 543. Customs and Rules: Bourbon Rationalizing Projects and Social Conflicts in the 1770s 854. Disputed Images of Colonialism: Spanish Rule and Indian Subversion, 1777–1780 1225. The Dilemmas of Self-Rule 1576. In the Land of Heretics 186Conclusion: Andean Political Imagination in Times of Insurgency 215Notes 229References 267Index 277

“Subverting Colonial Authority is a major contribution to the ongoing revision of the history of colonial Latin America and of the development of the modern world in general. It should be read by scholars not only of Latin America but also of world and even European history.”-Karen Spalding, author of HuarochirÍ: An Andean Society under Inca and Spanish Rule "Sergio Serulnikov analyzes the root causes, key moments, and bloody consequences of the massive indigenous revolt that nearly toppled Spanish rule in the southern Andes in the early 1780s. Exhaustively researched and cogently argued, this is a major work on the connection between everyday resistance to colonialism and revolutionary upheaval to end it forever. Essential reading for students and scholars of colonial rule everywhere."-John H. Coatsworth, Harvard University

Sergio Serulnikov is Assistant Professor of History at Boston College.

• Acknowledgments viiIntroduction 11. Political Legitimacy in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Andean Villages 192. From a Multiethnic Community to a Multiethnic Chieftanship: Florencia Lupa, Cacique of Moscari 543. Customs and Rules: Bourbon Rationalizing Projects and Social Conflicts in the 1770s 854. Disputed Images of Colonialism: Spanish Rule and Indian Subversion, 1777–1780 1225. The Dilemmas of Self-Rule 1576. In the Land of Heretics 186Conclusion: Andean Political Imagination in Times of Insurgency 215Notes 229References 267Index 277

“Subverting Colonial Authority is a major contribution to the ongoing revision of the history of colonial Latin America and of the development of the modern world in general. It should be read by scholars not only of Latin America but also of world and even European history.”-Karen Spalding, author of HuarochirÍ: An Andean Society under Inca and Spanish Rule "Sergio Serulnikov analyzes the root causes, key moments, and bloody consequences of the massive indigenous revolt that nearly toppled Spanish rule in the southern Andes in the early 1780s. Exhaustively researched and cogently argued, this is a major work on the connection between everyday resistance to colonialism and revolutionary upheaval to end it forever. Essential reading for students and scholars of colonial rule everywhere."-John H. Coatsworth, Harvard University

Sergio Serulnikov is Assistant Professor of History at Boston College.

• Acknowledgments viiIntroduction 11. Political Legitimacy in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Andean Villages 192. From a Multiethnic Community to a Multiethnic Chieftanship: Florencia Lupa, Cacique of Moscari 543. Customs and Rules: Bourbon Rationalizing Projects and Social Conflicts in the 1770s 854. Disputed Images of Colonialism: Spanish Rule and Indian Subversion, 1777–1780 1225. The Dilemmas of Self-Rule 1576. In the Land of Heretics 186Conclusion: Andean Political Imagination in Times of Insurgency 215Notes 229References 267Index 277

“Subverting Colonial Authority is a major contribution to the ongoing revision of the history of colonial Latin America and of the development of the modern world in general. It should be read by scholars not only of Latin America but also of world and even European history.”-Karen Spalding, author of HuarochirÍ: An Andean Society under Inca and Spanish Rule "Sergio Serulnikov analyzes the root causes, key moments, and bloody consequences of the massive indigenous revolt that nearly toppled Spanish rule in the southern Andes in the early 1780s. Exhaustively researched and cogently argued, this is a major work on the connection between everyday resistance to colonialism and revolutionary upheaval to end it forever. Essential reading for students and scholars of colonial rule everywhere."-John H. Coatsworth, Harvard University