Vertical Empire
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Vertical Empire

The General Resettlement of Indians in the Colonial Andes

  1. 308 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Vertical Empire

The General Resettlement of Indians in the Colonial Andes

About this book

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 colonial ethnographic inquiries into indigenous culture and strengthened the place of native lords in colonial society. In the end, rather than destroying the web of Andean communities, the General Resettlement added another layer to indigenous culture, a culture that the Spaniards glimpsed and that Andeans defended fiercely.

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Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780822353102
9780822352969
eBook ISBN
9780822395591

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. Part I: Ethnography
  5. Part II: Resettlement
  6. Part III: After
  7. Epilogue
  8. Appendix
  9. Notes
  10. Glossary
  11. Bibliography
  12. Index

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