"Revolution in the Andes is the best single account that I have read of the great uprisings led by Túpac Amaru and the other neo-Incan rebels. It is likely to become a much-read book among scholars of Latin America history, culture, and politics, especially Andeanists."—Orin Starn, author of Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes
"In this outstanding book, Sergio Serulnikov, one of the foremost scholars of the late-colonial Andes, digests a large, multilingual historiography into a single cohesive narrative, framing the largest indigenous revolution of the New World after the Conquest for a wide audience. At the same time, he offers specialists provocative insights and attention to nuance, complexity, and local heterogeneity."—Jeremy Adelman, author of Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World
"In this outstanding book, Sergio Serulnikov, one of the foremost scholars of the late colonial Andes, digests a large, multilingual historiography into a single cohesive narrative, framing the largest indigenous revolution of the New World after the Conquest for a wide audience. At the same time, he offers specialists provocative insights and attention to nuance, complexity, and local heterogeneity."—Jeremy Adelman, author of Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World
“This well-written book is accessible for undergraduates while analytically rich enough to satisfy experts.”
-- E. E. O’Connor Choice
“Revolution in the Andesoffers us a fluid political narrative of events that is framed in wider structural context, sensitive to local dynamics, and penetrating in its analysis. It is written accessibly to engage a nonscholarly audience and is rendered into English with uncommon skill and elegance by translator David Frye. Ultimately, Serulnikov offers a new vision of how the political thinking and mobilization of Andean insurgents.”
-- Sinclair Thomson Hispanic American Historical Review
“In this thin volume, Serulnikov manages to present an excellent overview of the insurrection as well as a nuanced discussion of regional and local variations. He references a large historiography dating from the 1950s to the present, and an array of archival material, including quotations from Túpac Amaru II and imperial officials.”
-- Michael J. Gonzalez Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"Geared to undergraduate and popular audiences, Revolution in the Andes features meticulous accounts of complex events in plain, lucid language."
-- Jason B. McClure Michigan War Studies Review
“Serulnikov succeeds admirably in encapsulating a chronologically and geographically coherent narrative of revolution from 1780 to 1782, which is easily accessible to readers with no prior knowledge.”
-- Marc Eagle History: Reviews of New Books
“An exceptional synthesis of the Age of Andean Insurrection. Apt for specialists and nonspecialists alike.”
-- José Carlos De la Puente Luna Latin American Research Review