Taking a long view of history, this work explores the colonial roots, modern context, trajectory and complex legacy of the Shining Path insurgency in the region of Huancavelica, Peru.
The field of comparative genocide studies has produced an increasingly rich literature on the targeting of various groups for extermination and other atrocities throughout history and around the contemporary world. This title opens the subject of subaltern genocide for exploration by scholars of genocide, ethnic conflict, and human rights.
Landscapes of Inequity examines a range of environmental justice issues in the Andes and western Amazon basin from the perspectives of Indigenous peoples and economic development in a global economy.
In Santa Bárbara's Legacy: An Environmental History of Huancavelica, Peru, Nicholas A. Robins presents the first comprehensive environmental history of a mercury producing region in Latin America, and one of the world's most mercury contaminated urban areas.
Conflict in Cuba is not new. Since early in Cuba's colonial history a small elite has used centralized power to rule for what its members viewed as the common good, which often coincided with their own good. Political officials often took advantage of their situation and created monopolies which limited accountability, social mobility, fair play, and economic development -- the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. This work traces this eth...
Exploring one of the least-studied genocides in post-conquest South America, Robins calls into question many of the central assumptions currently held by genocide scholars. Victims of genocide usually lack the organization and weaponry to effectively battle their enemies. During the Great Rebellion the Indian revolutionaries faced the better-organized and armed loyalist army. Where as genocidal policies are usually characterized by centralized...
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 me...
On the basis of an examination of the colonial mercury and silverproduction processes and related labor systems, Mercury, Mining, and Empire exploresthe effects of mercury pollution in colonial Huancavelica, Peru, and Potos, inpresent-day Bolivia. The book presents a multifaceted and interwoven tale of whatcolonial exploitation of indigenous peoples and resources left in its wake. It is asocio-ecological history that explores the toxic interre...
The Great Rebellion claimed tens of thousands of lives and traumatized imperial psyches for decades. This work delves into the fractious relations between Indian communities and their clergy and the role that such tensions played as a major causal factor in the rebellion.
The Great Rebellion claimed tens of thousands of lives and traumatized imperial psyches for decades. This work delves into the fractious relations between Indian communities and their clergy and the role that such tensions played as a major causal factor in the rebellion.
Examines the application of late-colonial Bourbon policies concerning marriage, morality, and intimacy. Drawing on archival sources, Nicholas A. Robins examines how such policies and the means by which they were enforced highlight the moral, racial, and patriarchal ideals of the time, and, more important, the degree to which the policies were evaded.
Nicholas A. Robins is a lecturer in the Department of History at North Carolina State University. He is author of Native Insurgencies and the Genocidal Impulse in the Americas (IU Press, 2005), Genocide and Millennialism in Upper Peru, and The Culture of Conflict in Modern Cuba. Adam Jones is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia Okanagan in Kelowna, BC. He is author or editor of a dozen books, includin...
