New world, first nations : Native peoples of Mesoamerica and the Andes under colonial rule / edited by David Cahill and Blanca Tovías.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cahill, David Patrick.

Tovías, Blanca.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of Mexico--History.

Indians of Mexico.

History.

Indians of South America--Andes Region--History.

Indians of South America.

Indians of Mexico--First contact with other peoples.

Indians of South America--First contact with other peoples--Andes Region.

Andes Region.

Indians of South America--First contact with other peoples.

Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810.

Mexico.

Andes Region--History.

Physical Description:

vii, 265 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Brighton [England] ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, [2006]

Contents:

Introduction : first nations between conquest and independence / David Cahill and Blanca Tovías

Writing two cultures : the meaning of "amoxtli" (book) in Nahua New Spain / Susan Schroeder

The cosmological bases of local power in the Andes during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Susan E. Ramírez

Las mercedes que pedía para su salida : the Vilcabamba Inca and the Spanish state, 1539-1572 / Kerstin Nowack

Some avatars of death in New Spain's southeast / Elsa Malvido

Beyond the Indian/Ladino dichotomy : shifting identities in colonial and contemporary Chiapas, Mexico / Janine Gasco

Indigenous production and consumption of cotton in eighteenth-century Chiapas : re-evaluating the coercive practices of the Reparto de Efectos / Kevin Gosner

Recent studies on gender relations in colonial native Andean history / Nancy E. van Deusen

A liminal nobility : the Incas in the middle ground of late colonial Peru / David Cahill

A historical and cultural perspective on the 1814 revolution in Cuzco / Luis Miguel Glave

A nationalist movement without nationalism : the limits of imagined community in Mexico, 1810-1821 / Eric Van Young.

Notes:

Papers presented at a conference held in Oct. 2002 at the University of New South Wales.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1903900638

OCLC:

61361598