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Contested territory : mapping Peru in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Heidi V. Scott.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Scott, Heidi V., 1976-
Series:
History, languages, and cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese worlds.
History, languages, and cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese worlds
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Spaniards--Peru--History--16th century.
Spaniards.
Spaniards--Peru--History--17th century.
Cultural landscapes--Peru.
Cultural landscapes.
Human geography--Peru.
Human geography.
Peru--History--Conquest, 1522-1548.
Peru.
Peru--History--1548-1820.
Peru--Discovery and exploration--Spanish.
Physical Description:
xiii, 256 p. : maps.
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2009.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Contested Territory explores the ways in which Peru's early colonial landscapes were experienced and portrayed, especially by the Spanish conquerors but also by their conquered subjects.
Contents:
Landscape and the Spanish conquest of Peru
Beyond textuality : landscape, embodiment, and native agency
Landscapes of resistance? : Peru's relaciones geograficas
The mobile landscapes of Huarochiri
Negotiating Amazonia : the accounts of Juan Recio de Leon
Contested frontiers and the Amazon/Andes divide
Conclusion : mapping Peru in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780268092702
0268092702
OCLC:
694144534

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