Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
In November 1780, a hereditary Inca nobleman and mule-train entrepreneur named José Gabriel Condorcanqui ambushed the corrupt tax magistrate of his highland province, staged a public execution in the provincial plaza, and ignited the most devastating rebellion the Spanish Empire in the Americas had ever faced. Within weeks, tens of thousands of Andean fighters were converging on the former Inca capital of Cusco under the banner of Túpac Amaru II - the shining serpent reborn.Amaru II and the Revolt That Shook the Spanish Empire traces the full arc of this extraordinary crisis: the Bourbon fiscal reforms that drove Andean society to breaking point; the commercial journeys that gave Condorcanqui his comprehensive understanding of a system he would destroy; the dual command he shared with his co-commander and wife Micaela Bastidas, whose strategic intelligence surpassed his own at the rebellion’s most consequential moment; the all-female battalion that held a strategic river bridge for months; the catastrophic siege of Cusco; the public executions of breathtaking cruelty; and the systematic attempt to erase from Andean memory every living trace of the Inca bloodline.Drawing on the richest scholarship on colonial Andean history, Dermot Gray delivers a gripping narrative of sovereignty, sacrifice, and the seed of resistance that no colonial programme could extinguish.
