Priest Indian Conflict In Upper Peru

Author : Nicholas A. Robins
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0815631421

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Priest-Indian Conflict in Upper Peru by Nicholas A. Robins Pdf

This detailed volume offers an unprecedented exploration of incendiary conditions that stoked The Great Rebellion of 1780-1782 in Upper Peru (Bolivia). That revolt claimed tens of thousands of lives and traumatized imperial psyches for decades to come. It was, in effect, one of the most de vastating political and human disasters in Latin American colonial history. Using extensive archival research, Nicholas Robins delves into the fractious relations between Indian communities and their clergy and the role that such tensions played as a major causal factor of the rebellion. Among the grievous economic and social issues were the use of forced Indian labor, land encroachment, colonial relations with native leaders, and collection of Indian tithes and first fruits. Powerful case histories offer rare insights into the daily exercise of power in colonial Andean villages. Compelling archival evidence provides a riveting portrait of clerical abuse in rural villages and reveals how Indian peoples challenged and resisted ruling powers with varying degrees of success. Robins’ substantial documentation is enriched by a wealth of often colorful detail, making it an excellent choice for studies in Colonial Latin America n history and indigenous Latin American communities.

Author : Nicholas A. Robins
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004691865

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The Shining Path in Huancavelica, Peru by Nicholas A. Robins Pdf

This is the first work exploring the colonial roots, modern context, trajectory and legacy of the Shining Path insurgency in the region of Huancavelica, Peru, one of Peru’s most impoverished and Quechua-speaking regions. The use of terroristic violence to implement a revolutionary and exclusivist ideology was without precedent in Latin America, presaging later movements such as ISIS. Integrating interviews, testimonials, survey data and the vast primary and secondary literature on the insurgency, this work examines how Huancavelican communities experienced and continue to shoulder the consequences of an exterminatory conflict thirty years after the insurgency was largely, although not entirely, defeated.

Author : Alcira Duenas,Alcira Dueñas
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781607320197

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Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" by Alcira Duenas,Alcira Dueñas Pdf

Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the "lettered city" as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites. Rarely acknowledged in studies of resistance to colonial rule, these writings challenged colonial hierarchies and ethnic discrimination in attempts to redefine the Andean role in colonial society. Scholars have long assumed that Spanish rule remained largely undisputed in Peru between the 1570s and 1780s, but educated elite Indians and mestizos challenged the legitimacy of Spanish rule, criticized colonial injustice and exclusion, and articulated the ideas that would later be embraced in the Great Rebellion in 1781. Their movement extended across the Atlantic as the scholars visited the seat of the Spanish empire to negotiate with the king and his advisors for social reform, lobbied diverse networks of supporters in Madrid and Peru, and struggled for admission to religious orders, schools and universities, and positions in ecclesiastic and civil administration. Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" explores how scholars contributed to social change and transformation of colonial culture through legal, cultural, and political activism, and how, ultimately, their significant colonial critiques and campaigns redefined colonial public life and discourse. It will be of interest to scholars and students of colonial history, colonial literature, Hispanic studies, and Latin American studies.

Author : Peter F. Klarén
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538106686

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Historical Dictionary of Peru by Peter F. Klarén Pdf

With 10,000 years of history, Peru, with its formidable Inca and pre-Inca civilizations and its rich colonial and post-colonial past, formed the very foundations of multi-ethnic South American history and society. It is a country rich in natural and human resources, but has been largely confined to a state of underdevelopment for much of its history. However, since 2000 Peru has shown significant signs of economic and political progress as its economy grew rapidly and it polity democratized. The Historical Dictionary of Peru packages in a unique way the course of Peru’s evolution and recent trajectory, with substantial sections devoted to describing and analyzing the country’s history, politics and social order, combined with shorter entries on the important people and events that have contributed to its current state of affairs. It also includes a comprehensive profile of the country based on an array of data, tables and statistics. In short, PERU will be an indispensable introduction and source for high school, college and graduate students, travelers and tourists and American government and business personnel with Peru as a destination. The Historical Dictionary of Peru contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.

Author : Nicholas A. Robins
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253005380

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Mercury, Mining, and Empire by Nicholas A. Robins Pdf

On the basis of an examination of the colonial mercury and silver production processes and related labor systems, Mercury, Mining, and Empire explores the effects of mercury pollution in colonial Huancavelica, Peru, and Potosí, in present-day Bolivia. The book presents a multifaceted and interwoven tale of what colonial exploitation of indigenous peoples and resources left in its wake. It is a socio-ecological history that explores the toxic interrelationships between mercury and silver production, urban environments, and the people who lived and worked in them. Nicholas A. Robins tells the story of how native peoples in the region were conscripted into the noxious ranks of foot soldiers of proto-globalism, and how their fate, and that of their communities, was—and still is—chained to it.

Author : Ileana Baird,Christina Ionescu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317145448

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Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context by Ileana Baird,Christina Ionescu Pdf

Exploring Enlightenment attitudes toward things and their relation to human subjects, this collection offers a geographically wide-ranging perspective on what the eighteenth century looked like beyond British or British-colonial borders. To highlight trends, fashions, and cultural imports of truly global significance, the contributors draw their case studies from Western Europe, Russia, Africa, Latin America, and Oceania. This survey underscores the multifarious ways in which new theoretical approaches, such as thing theory or material and visual culture studies, revise our understanding of the people and objects that inhabit the phenomenological spaces of the eighteenth century. Rather than focusing on a particular geographical area, or on the global as a juxtaposition of regions with a distinctive cultural footprint, this collection draws attention to the unforeseen relational maps drawn by things in their global peregrinations, celebrating the logic of serendipity that transforms the object into some-thing else when it is placed in a new locale.

Author : Nicholas A. Robins
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789004343795

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Santa Bárbara’s Legacy by Nicholas A. Robins Pdf

In Santa Bárbara’s Legacy: An Environmental History of Huancavelica, Peru, Nicholas A. Robins presents the first comprehensive environmental history of a mercury producing region in Latin America. Tracing the origins, rise and decline of the regional population and economy from pre-history to the present, Robins explores how people’s multifaceted, intimate and often toxic relationship with their environment has resulted in Huancavelica being among the most mercury-contaminated urban areas on earth. The narrative highlights issues of environmental justice and the toxic burdens that contemporary residents confront, especially many of those who live in adobe homes and are exposed to mercury, as well as lead and arsenic, on a daily basis. The work incorporates archival and printed primary sources as well as scientific research led by the author.

Author : Nicholas A. Robins,Adam Jones
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780253220776

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Genocides by the Oppressed by Nicholas A. Robins,Adam Jones Pdf

In the last two decades, the field of comparative genocide studies has produced an increasingly rich literature on the targeting of various groups for extermination and other atrocities, throughout history and around the contemporary world. However, the phenomenon of "genocides by the oppressed," that is, retributive genocidal actions carried out by subaltern actors, has received almost no attention. The prominence in such genocides of non-state actors, combined with the perceived moral ambiguities of retributive genocide that arise in analyzing genocidal acts "from below," have so far eluded serious investigation. Genocides by the Oppressed addresses this oversight, opening the subject of subaltern genocide for exploration by scholars of genocide, ethnic conflict, and human rights. Focusing on case studies of such genocide, the contributors explore its sociological, anthropological, psychological, symbolic, and normative dimensions.

Author : Michael Laffan,Max Weiss
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-14
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 9780691153605

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Facing Fear by Michael Laffan,Max Weiss Pdf

Fear is ubiquitous but slippery. It has been defined as a purely biological reality, derided as an excuse for cowardice, attacked as a force for social control, and even denigrated as an unnatural condition that has no place in the disenchanted world of enlightened modernity. In these times of institutionalized insecurity and global terror, Facing Fear sheds light on the meaning, diversity, and dynamism of fear in multiple world-historical contexts, and demonstrates how fear universally binds us to particular presents but also to a broad spectrum of memories, stories, and states in the past. From the eighteenth-century Peruvian highlands and the California borderlands to the urban cityscapes of contemporary Russia and India, this book collectively explores the wide range of causes, experiences, and explanations of this protean emotion. The volume contributes to the thriving literature on the history of emotions and destabilizes narratives that have often understood fear in very specific linguistic, cultural, and geographical settings. Rather, by using a comparative, multidisciplinary framework, the book situates fear in more global terms, breaks new ground in the historical and cultural analysis of emotions, and sets out a new agenda for further research. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Alexander Etkind, Lisbeth Haas, Andreas Killen, David Lederer, Melani McAlister, Ronald Schechter, Marla Stone, Ravi Sundaram, and Charles Walker.

Author : Waltraud Q. Morales
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438130453

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A Brief History of Bolivia by Waltraud Q. Morales Pdf

Details the rich culture and history of the South American country of Bolivia.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131561941

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Choice by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066180459

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Portugal
ISBN : UCLA:L0102978913

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British Bulletin of Publications on Latin America, the Caribbean, Portugal and Spain by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Bibliographical literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124004792

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Bibliographic Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sabine Hyland
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271077611

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The Chankas and the Priest by Sabine Hyland Pdf

How does society deal with a serial killer in its midst? What if the murderer is a Catholic priest living among native villagers in colonial Peru? In The Chankas and the Priest, Sabine Hyland chronicles the horrifying story of Father Juan Bautista de Albadán, a Spanish priest to the Chanka people of Pampachiri in Peru from 1601 to 1611. During his reign of terror over his Andean parish, Albadán was guilty of murder, sexual abuse, sadistic torture, and theft from his parishioners, amassing a personal fortune at their expense. For ten years, he escaped punishment for these crimes by deceiving and outwitting his superiors in the colonial government and church administration. Drawing on a remarkable collection of documents found in archives in the Americas and Europe, including a rare cache of Albadán’s candid family letters, Hyland reveals what life was like for the Chankas under this corrupt and brutal priest, and how his actions sparked the instability that would characterize Chanka political and social history for the next 123 years. Through this tale, she vividly portrays the colonial church and state of Peru as well as the history of Chanka ethnicity, the nature of Spanish colonialism, and the changing nature of Chanka politics and kinship from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century.