Mendez, Cecilia: The Plebeian Republic: The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State, 1820-1850.(Book Review)

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Mendez, Cecilia The Plebeian Republic: The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State, 1820-1850 Durham, NC: Duke University Press 343 pp., $84.95 cloth, $23.95 paper ISBN 0-8223-3430-5 cloth ISBN 0-8223-3441-0 paper Publication Date: May 2005

Cecilia Mendez, an associate professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has written a provocative work that complements the growing literature on Peruvian state formation in the early republican era. She focuses on a monarchist rebellion that occurred between 1825 and 1828, centered in the town of Huanta in the ...

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