Event Description
Building from his recent book, The Tupac Amaru Rebellion, Charles Walker examines the role this massive rebellion (1780-83) had in global history. In particular, he probes its impact on Spanish America’s wars of independence and whether it belongs in the category of an Atlantic Revolution.
Speaker
Charles Walker is a professor of History and the director of the Hemispheric Institute of the Americas at UC Davis.
More Information
Read "Peru: Reflections of Tupac Amaru" by Charles Walker in the Fall 2015 Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies.