Title: La rebelión de las alcabalas
Subtitle: el primer grito de rebeldía contra el impuesto a las ventas, 1592
Description: "A concise review of the 1592-94 cabildo-led protest against sales taxes in the highland city of Tunja. Essay places the unsuccessful struggle for municipal autonomy and prerogatives at the convergence of tensions between indigenous peoples and colonists, creoles and peninsulars, and colony and empire created by the maturation of Spanish rule in Nueva Granada. A documentary appendix completes the book"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Subjects: Sales tax, History
Places: Colombia, Tunja (Province)
Time periods: 16th century