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Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru: Population Growth and the Bourbon Reforms Autor Warren, Adam

“… The Bourbon reforms of the eighteenth century shaped many of the political, economic, and social interests of Spain and its colonies…”
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Death and Conversion in the Andes: Lima and Cuzco, 1532-1670 Autor Ramos, Gabriela

“…When the Spanish invaded the Inca empire in 1532, the cult of the ancestors was an essential feature of pre-Columbian religion throughout the Andes. The dead…”
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Of Love and Loathing: Marital Life, Strife, and Intimacy in the Colonial Andes, 1750–1825 Autor Robins, Nicholas A

“…Policies concerning marriage, morality, and intimacy were central to the efforts of the Spanish monarchy to maintain social control in colonial Charcas. The…”
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Ever Faithful: Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba Autor Sartorious, David

“…Known for much of the nineteenth century as "the ever-faithful isle," Cuba did not earn its independence from Spain until 1898, long after most American colonies had achieved emancipation from European rule…”
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Muerte y conversión en los Andes : Lima y Cuzco, 1532-1670 Autor Ramos, Gabriela

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Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You: Elsewheres and Ethnosuicide in the Colonial Mesoamerican World Autor Rabasa, José

“…No detailed description available for "Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You"…”
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Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment Autor Weber, David

“…Two centuries after Cortés and Pizarro seized the Aztec and Inca empires, Spain's conquest of America remained unfinished…”
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Converting Words: Maya in the Age of the Cross Autor Hanks, William F.

“…This pathbreaking synthesis of history, anthropology, and linguistics gives an unprecedented view of the first two hundred years of the Spanish colonization of the Yucatec Maya…”
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Negotiation within Domination: New Spain's Indian Pueblos Confront the Spanish State Autor Ruiz Medrano, Ethelia, Kellogg, Susan

“… This affected not only the development of legal systems in New Spain and Mexico but also the survival and continuation of traditional cultures…”
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How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400-Year History Autor Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Manuel Lucena Giraldo

“…, Núñez de Balboa and others."— Wall Street Journal The untold story of the engineering behind the empire, showing how imperial Spain built upon existing infrastructure and hierarchies of the Inca, Aztec, and more, to further its growth…”
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Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru Autor O'Toole, Rachel Sarah

“…Bound Lives chronicles the lived experience of race relations in northern coastal Peru during the colonial era. Rachel Sarah O'Toole examines the construction…”
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The Chumash world at European contact: power, trade, and feasting among complex hunter-gatherers. Autor Gamble, Lynn H, Gamble, Lynn H

“…When Spanish explorers and missionaries came onto Southern California's shores in 1769, they encountered the large towns and villages of the Chumash, a people…”
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The Bourbon Reforms and the Remaking of Spanish Frontier Missions Autor Jackson, Robert H

“…During the eighteenth century the Spanish Bourbon monarchs attempted to transform Spanish America…”
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Death and Dying in Colonial Spanish America Autor Will de Chaparro, Martina, Achim, Miruna

“…When the Spanish colonized the Americas, they brought many cultural beliefs and practices with them, not the least of which involved death and dying…”
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The Spanish Monarchy and the Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717-1739): The Politics of Early Bourbon Reform in Spain and Spanish America Autor Eissa-Barroso, Francisco A

“…InThe Spanish Monarchy and the Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717-1739), Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso analyzes the politics behind the most salient Bourbon reform introduced in Spanish America during the early eighteenth century…”
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The empirical empire : Spanish colonial rule and the politics of knowledge Autor Brendecke, Arndt

“…How was Spain able to govern its enormous colonial territories?In 1573 the king decreed that his councilors should acquire "complete knowledge" about the empire…”
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The course of Andean history Autor Henderson, Peter V. N.

“…The only comprehensive history of Andean South America from initial settlement to the present, this useful book focuses on Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, the four countries where the Andes have…”
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Allies at odds : the Andean church and its indigenous agents, 1583-1671 Autor Charles, John

“…Focusing on the highland parishes of the Lima archdiocese, John Charles explores the vital, often conflictive role indigenous agents played in the creation of…”
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Space-Time Perspectives on Early Colonial Moquegua Autor Rice, Prudence M

“…In this rich study of the construction and reconstruction of a colonized landscape, Prudence M. Rice takes an implicit political ecology approach in exploring…”
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Sovereignty and Society in Colonial Brazil: The High Court of Bahia and Its Judges, 1609-1751 Autor Schwartz, Stuart B

“…While the Spanish enterprise in America is relatively well known to the English-reading public, the Portuguese tropical empire in Brazil has remained until recently an unknown world…”
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