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Comunero Politics and the King’s Justice
2020Abstract In 1774, a mob of commoner Andeans in one town in the viceroyalty of Peru attacked and killed their cacique, claiming that no person could be held responsible because the común, the community of commoners, had done it. The political theory was simple: if the cacique is good, he should be obeyed, but if he is a tyrant, if he does
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Comunero Democracy Endures in Chile
NACLA Report on the Americas, 1993AbstractFor the comuneros, socialism was not an abstract utopia, but a set of ideas that resonated with the way they already organized their economic production.
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El Greco's "Laocoon": An Epitaph for Toledo's "Comuneros"?
Artibus et Historiae, 1993The painting Laocoon of c. 1610 (National Gallery of Art, Washington) is a famous anomaly in El Greco's oeuvre: at no other time did he paint a scene from pagan mythology, and he rarely attempted moralizing allusions. Instead of seeking links which the artist never intended, it could well be more rewarding to consider the presence of the fortified town
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On the 200th Anniversary of the Comuneros Uprising in New Granada
Soviet Studies in History, 1988Socorro. … Unforgettable pages in the history of Colombia are brought to life by the mention of this city. It was here, in 1781, that a passionate call to battle against tyranny and colonial oppression, a call echoed by popular uprisings in different parts of South America, took place.
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