Last week the website New Books in Latin American Studies interviewed me for a podcast about The Tupac Amaru Rebellion.

New Books in Latin American Studies is a wonderful platform that promotes the work of Latin Americanists through interviews with the authors. It must be one of the few spaces where authors can talk about his work with a broader audience, always a privilege. Many scholars have been interviewed by the team of New Books in Latin American Studies, such as  Kirsten Weld and Lyman Johnson, among others.

Thanks to Dan Livesay for the great interview. In about half hour we covered various aspects of the book and beyond. Here is the Intro that accompanies the interview.

Charles F. Walker’s book The Tupac Amaru Rebellion (Harvard University Press, 2014) charts the rise, fall, and legacy of a massive uprising in colonial Peru. Indigenous societies in the Andes labored under heavy taxes, tributes, and discrimination imposed by the Spanish imperial state.

Walker’s monograph follows the rebellion of a multiethnic group of indigenous, mestizo, and creole subjects, led by José Gabriel Tupac Amaru in 1780. Along with his wife Micaela Bastidas, Amaru’s leadership posed a serious challenge to Viceroyalty of Peru. Although ultimately unsuccessful, Amaru’s rebellion inspired and gave strength to other uprisings in the Andes.

With an engaging narrative of the rebellion’s progress, Walker provides a vivid explanation of one of the largest and most important colonial rebellions in the eighteenth-century Americas.

Listen the interview here.

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