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Vertical empire : the general resettlement of Indians in the colonial Andes / Jeremy Mumford.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mumford, Jeremy Ravi.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of South America--Andes Region--Government relations.
- Indians of South America.
- Spain--Colonies--America--Administration.
- Spain.
- Andes Region--History--16th century.
- Andes Region.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (308 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 1569 the Spanish viceroy Francisco de Toledo ordered more than one million native people of the central Andes to move to newly founded Spanish-style towns called reducciones. 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's Vertical Empire reveals the ways that it preserved others. The campaign drew on colon
- Contents:
- The cities
- The mountains
- The grid
- Lords
- "That so qualified assembly"
- The viceroy
- Tyrants
- On the ground
- In and out of the reducciones
- Four hundred years.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781283742436
- 1283742438
- 9780822395591
- 0822395592
- OCLC:
- 818415870
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