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 dawning of a new age. His work underscores the link that may befound, but is not inherent, between genocide, millennialism, and revitalizationmovements in Latin America during the colonial and early national periods.