A History of Indigenous Latin America

Aymara to Zapatistas

René Harder Horst, René D. Harder Horst

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9780415519113
• eBook ISBN: 9781351856010
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: History

A History of Indigenous Latin America is a comprehensive introduction to the people who first settled in Latin America, from before the arrival of the Europeans to the present.

Indigenous history provides a singular perspective to political, social and economic changes that followed European settlement and the African slave trade in Latin America. Set broadly within a postcolonial theoretical framework and enhanced by anthropology, economics, sociology, and religion, this textbook includes military conflicts and nonviolent resistance, transculturation, labor, political organization, gender, and broad selective accommodation. Uniquely organized into periods of 50 years to facilitate classroom use, it allows students to ground important indigenous historical events and cultural changes within the timeframe of a typical university semester.

Supported by images, textboxes, and linked documents in each chapter that aid learning and provide a new perspective that broadly enhances Latin American history and studies, it is the perfect introductory textbook for students.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Endorsements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Maps
• List of Textboxes
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Indigenous People from the Southern Cone Meet an Important Person
• 1. Indigenous Latin America: Introductions, Methodology, and Definitions
• 2. Indigenous Latin America: Abya Yala
• 3. Indigenous Encounters with Europeans: The Fifteenth Century
• 4. Natives Challenge the Conquerors Yet Help Create a New World, 1500 to 1549
• 5. Colonial Alliances and Demographic Collapse, 1550 to 1599
• 6. The High Colonial Period: Indigenous People Join Imperial Systems, 1600 to 1649
• 7. Transculturation, Urbanization, and Isolated Revolts, 1650 to 1699
• 8. Demographic Recovery and Growing Insurrections, 1700 to 1749
• 9. Religious Conflicts, Widespread Resistance, and New Countries, 1750 to 1825
• 10. Indigenous Responses to New Rulers and Frontier Expansion, 1811 to 1871
• 11. Struggles for Land, Labor, and Political Leverage in Neocolonial Latin America, 1870 to 1929
• 12. Diverse Indigenous Paths toward Self-Determination, 1930 to 1971
• 13. Indigenous Organization and Opposition to Military Rule, 1971 to 1989
• 14. Indigenous People Enter the New Millennium, 1990 to 2010
• Conclusion: Moving Ahead with Indigenous History in Mind
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Appendix 1: Organization Abbreviations
• Appendix 2: Indigenous People
• Index