New World, First Nations: Native Peoples of Mesoamerica and the Andes Under Colonial Rule - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1903900638 ISBN 13: 9781903900635

Verlag: Liverpool University Press, 2006

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The Spanish conquest and colonization of the Americas dramatically transformed the lives of native peoples in Mesoamerica and the Andes. This revolutionary and multilayered process varied greatly in its intensity and timing from region to region, but in all cases radically changed indigenous societies, their values, and beliefs. The encounter between native peoples and the Spanish conquistadors and later settlers was marked by violence and drastic, epidemic-driven population decline. This dislocatory phase gradually gave way to myriad forms of accommodation, resistance, and social, cultural, and religious hybridity-the colonial heritage of Spanish America. The innovative essays in this volume compare the colonial experience of native peoples of the conquered Aztec, Maya, and Inca civilizations, from the 16th to the early 19th centuries. They highlight their creative responses to the challenges posed by colonial rule, its institutions, religion, and legal and economic systems. Interdisciplinary in approach, the essays distill a generation of scholarship and suggest an agenda for future research. This book will be of great interest to historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and postcolonialists.

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David Cahill is Professorial Fellow, School of History, University of New South Wales. He has recently published From Rebellion to Independence in the Andes: Soundings from Southern Peru, 1750-1830, and (with co-author Peter Bradley) of Habsburg Peru: Images, Imagination and Memory. Blanca Tovías is a Researcher at UNSW and the editor (with David Cahill) of Élites Indígenas en los Andes: Nobles, Caciques y Cabildantes bajo el Yugo Colonial.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Liverpool University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1903900638
• ISBN 13: 9781903900635
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 265
• Herausgeber: Cahill David Patrick, Tovias Blanca
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