Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest: Huamanga to Sixteen Forty

by Stern, Steve J.

• ISBN13: 9780299141844
• ISBN10: 0299141845
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

This second edition ofPeru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquestincludes Stern's 1992 reflections on the ten years of historical interpretation that have passed since the book's original publicationsetting his analysis of Huamanga in a larger perspective.

Author Biography

Steve J. Stern is professor of history and director of Latin American and Iberian Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.  His books include Resistance, Rebellion, and Consciousness in the Andean Peasant World, 18th to 20th Centuries and Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America, both of which are published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
 

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix	(1)
List of Figures and Maps	x	(1)
List of Tables	xi	(2)
Acknowledgments	xiii	(2)
Introduction to the Second Edition: The Challenge of Conquest in Wider Perspective	xv	(6)
Prologue: Paradigms of Conquest: History, Historiography, and Politics	xxi
1: Pre-Columbian Landscapes	3	(24)
2: Rise and Demise of the Post-Incaic Alliances	27	(24)
3: A Historical Watershed	51	(29)
4: The Political Economy of Colonialism	80	(34)
5: The Indians and Spanish Justice	114	(24)
6: The Political Economy of Dependence	138	(20)
7: The Tragedy of Success	158	(26)
8: Huamanga's Colonial Heritage	184	(13)
Appendix A: Debts, Wages, and Work in Castrovirreyna, 1597-1603	197	(4)
Appendix B: Guide to Colonial Land Tenure Documents for Huamanga	201	(2)
Appendix C: Official Counts of Huamanga Tributary Populations, 1570-1635	203	(2)
Appendix D: Asientos of Indians in the City of Huamanga, 1570-1640	205	(6)
Notes	211	(50)
Glossary	261	(4)
Bibliography	265	(18)
Index	283