Witness to the Age of Revolution

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a formidable teaching tool * Jose Carlos de la Puente, Early American Literature * An engaging text that will be of particular value to teachers who want to convey the human aspect of a tumultuous era as well as how it has been interpreted through history....Walker and Clarke should be applauded for their research and attention to detail....Perhaps the most important value of this genre is that it brings into stark relief the human experiences and suffering of the era of Atlantic Revolution in ways that traditional historical narratives simply cannot convey It is a very good example of the pedagogical value of graphic history. The book should also serve as a call to revisit the historical and pedagogical value of biography. Witness to the Age of Revolution shows how they can not only weave multiple historical themes into one narrative but also put a very human face on these events. * Mark Rice, The Americas * A formidable teaching tool....The graphics are well crafted and their rich, comic-like aesthetics, truly powerful. Maps, family trees, primary documents, and other visual resources effectively condense large amounts of information and vividly convey Juan Bautista's plea, making the story easy to follow, even for students with little to no knowledge of the subject....Juan Bautista's experiences...put a human face to...epochal transformations....As he reminisced about his forty-year ordeal...[He] did not merely recount the recent colonial past, he also helped to resignify it, rendering it useful to the nascent Latin American nations struggling to gain (and legitimize) their independence from Spain. * Jose Carole de la Puente, Early American Literature * This book manages to rescue one of the most elusive figures in Peruvian history and is a persuasive invitation to take his sources as a starting point to relocate his historical legacy in the debates about the past, present and future of the Peruvian republican project in its bicentennial.... The appearance of Witness to the Age of Revolution contributes to revitalizing the subgenre of graphic adaptations of central documents of Peruvian historiography, which in Peru has very little precedent. * Fernando Aguirre Perez, La Vaca Multicolor * Part action comic, part historical biography: an attempt to correct the record and give a pivotal figure the prominence he deserves... [Witness to the Age of Revolution is] an educational hybrid, with vivid illustrations backed by scholarly context. * Kirkus * Some stories, like the incredible odyssey of Juan Bautista Tupac Amaru, have to be seen to be believed. From his youth in the heart of the Incan Andes, where his half-brother led the massive indigenous struggle that nearly dislodged the Spanish Empire, to his decades-long exile in Spain and Morocco, where he befriended veterans of late-eighteenth and early nineteenth-century revolutions and wars of independence, and, finally, to his liberation in Argentina, where he was cast as a hero and encouraged to write his memoirs, this beautifully rendered graphic account of Juan Bautista's amazing journey is a vivid reminder that history offers epic dramas as riveting as any we might imagine. * Vincent Brown, author of Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War * From unlikely protagonists, off-center pathways, and the most forgotten corners of the late colonial Spanish world, Walker and Clarke draw a vivid and compelling story. * Kenneth Mills, University of Michigan * The life and times of an Inca 'Papillon,' witness to, and participant in the Age of Revolutions and the creation of modern Latin America. This beautifully illustrated and historically accurate graphic history of Tupac Amaru's brother and his controversial book makes this tragic history come alive. * Stuart B. Schwartz, Yale University * Witness to the Age of Revolution is a perfect text to allow students and scholars to engage with Juan Bautista Tupac Amaru's harrowing journey. This colorful graphic edition brings alive a forgotten piece of history and will allow the reader to see and feel the towering peaks of the Andes, the violence of the revolution, and the cruelty of forty years in captivity. * Sarah E. Owens, author of Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire * In this riveting, original, and sumptuously illustrated book, the remarkable and surprising transatlantic life of Juan Bautista Tupac Amaru is vividly reconstructed for students and scholars alike. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the Age of Revolutions. * Gabriel Paquette, University of Oregon * Juan Bautista's compelling story of resistance and survivalis re-told by a master historian and illustrated in an active and energetic style that draws the reader and the viewer deep into the world of people who fought long and hard to topple a powerful empire that once spanned the globe. Students and teachers of rebellion and revolution and anyone with an interestin Latin American and Spanish history and culture will want to follow the gripping account of this rebel and the travails that he endured attempting to free his people from imperialism. This is history as the story of action and the triumph of hope. * Leo J. Garofalo, co-author of Documenting Latin America: Gender, Race,and Empire * With colorful illustrations and a creative edition, the Oxford University Press Graphic History Series includes for the first time a welcomed addition from Indigenous Latin America, accessible to a variety of specialists and nonspecialist audiences alike...Using the expressive narrative of an Andean memoir, full-color pictorial illustrations, and critical contextualization, this publication contributes to restoring life to a multiplicity of muffled voices in the history of Indigenous rebel activities and their aftermath at the outset of modern times in the Andes....Its flexible and visual format makes the book suitable for undergraduate students of Latin American history and should enjoy wide use in the classroom. * Alcira Duenas, American Historical Review *