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This incurable evil : Mapuche resistance to Spanish enslavement, 1598-1687 / Eugene C. Berger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berger, Eugene Clark, author.
- Series:
- Atlantic crossings
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chile--History--1565-1810.
- Chile.
- Mapuche Indians--Wars.
- Mapuche Indians.
- Indians, Treatment of--Chile.
- Indians, Treatment of.
- Slavery--Chile--History.
- Slavery.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 194 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Documents how initial Mapuche-Spanish alliances were built and how they were destroyed by increasingly powerful slave-trading elites operating like organized crime families"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Indigenous slavery and slave societies
- Winka : the sixteenth century and origins of Mapuche resistance
- A Pacific Coast diaspora : the incurable evil and an evolving need for resistance
- The era of "Great Tokis"
- Indios amigos and the 1655 Mapuche Uprising
- Toward a ban of Mapuche enslavement : midcentury resistance and outrageously corrupt governors
- Conclusion: An act of God and an end to the trade?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780817321581
- 0817321586
- 9780817361105
- 0817361103
- OCLC:
- 1346253166
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