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Death and Conversion in the Andes: Lima and Cuzco, 1532-1670 by 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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Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru: Population Growth and the Bourbon Reforms by 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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Of Love and Loathing: Marital Life, Strife, and Intimacy in the Colonial Andes, 1750–1825 by 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 by 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 by Ramos, Gabriela

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

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Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment by 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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Negotiation within Domination: New Spain's Indian Pueblos Confront the Spanish State by 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 by 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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Converting Words: Maya in the Age of the Cross by 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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Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru by 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 Bourbon Reforms and the Remaking of Spanish Frontier Missions by 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 by 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 by 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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Allies at odds : the Andean church and its indigenous agents, 1583-1671 by 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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Sovereignty and Society in Colonial Brazil: The High Court of Bahia and Its Judges, 1609-1751 by 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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Ever Faithful: Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba by David Sartorius

“…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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The Chumash world at European contact: power, trade, and feasting among complex hunter-gatherers. by 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 Tira de Tepechpan: Negotiating Place under Aztec and Spanish Rule by Diel, Lori Boornazian

“… in the city’s history from 1298 through 1596. Most of the history is presented pictographically…”
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The empirical empire : Spanish colonial rule and the politics of knowledge by 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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