Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Tables, Figures, and maps; 1. Introduction; Part I. Rebels: 2. A social profile; 3. Full-face portraits I: hard times and rebellion; 4. Full-face portraits II: love, suggestibility, curiosity, pressment; 5. The age of excuses: rituals of confession and pardon; 6. Indians; Part II. Leaders and Followers: 7. Indian notables; 8. Local Cabecillas; 9. A village delinquent: Chito Villagran; 10. Priest and parish; 11. Loyalist curates and warrior priests; 12. The social construction of priestly subversion and rebellion; 13. Four clerical Cabecillas; Part III. Popular Violence and Ideology: 14. The verbal culture of internal war: loose talk, rumor, sedition, and propaganda; 15. Anatomy of a riot I: Atlacomulco, 1810; 16. Anatomy of a riot II: the origins of local conflict; 17. Anatomy of a riot III: the dynamics of local political violence in New Spain, 1750-1820; 18. Masked messiahs and truncated utopias; 19. Conclusion: the other rebellion in comparative perspective; Appendices; Notes; Archival sources; Bibliography; Index.