Vertical Empire The General Resettlement of Indians in the Colonial Andes

Name: Vertical Empire The General Resettlement of Indians in the Colonial Andes
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ISBN: 9780822353102

ISBN-10: 0822353105

ISBN-13: 9780822353102

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jeremy Ravi Mumford

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In 1569 the Spanish viceroy Francisco de Toledo ordered the native people of the central Andes to move to newly founded Spanish-style towns calledreducciones. This campaign, known as the General Resettlement of Indians, represented a turning-point in the history of European colonialism: a state forcing an entire conquered society to change its way of life overnight. But while this radical restructuring destroyed certain aspects of indigenous society, Jeremy Ravi Mumford’sVertical Empirereveals the ways that it preserved others. The campaign drew on colonial ethnographic inquiries into indigenous culture and strengthened the place of native lords in colonial society. In the end, the General…

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List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 11/6/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Ethnography



The Cities



The Mountains



The Grid



Lords



Resettlement



"That So-Qualified Assembly"



The Viceroy



Tyrants



On the Ground



After



In and Out of the Reducciones



Four Hundred Years


Epilogue


Appendix


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index