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... conquistadors who were part of the Jiménez de Quesada expedition against the Muiscas; and an extract from the 1991 Constitution recognizing the possibility of collective land titles for Afro-Colombians. Also translated here are a bill of sale for an enslaved African girl, descriptions of frontier zones...

.... The eighteenth century also witnessed a great increase in the number of travelers who visited Lima, and many of them left rich accounts. Bourbon Lima Bourbon Reforms rebellions scientific expeditions tapadas Enlightenment ...

... Chapter 5 analyzes the discourse and political economy of the “Great Human Expedition,” a project of the Institute of Human Genetics at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, inaugurated at the 1992 celebration of the Fifth Centenary of the Discovery of America. Indigenous organizations...

... as a brief and uncomplicated affair whose outcome was more or less a foregone conclusion. But this account, by an anonymous author who accompanied Hernando Pizarro from Cuzco on his expedition into Qollasuyu in 1538, reveals that the campaigns in the southern Andes were more protracted and the Spanish forces...

... the enthusiastic support expressed by workers in the remote highland mines or students and intellectuals in the distant cities. Guevara’s celebrated diary provides a gripping, day-to-day account of his fateful Bolivian expedition. After a devastating ambush, his 26 September entry begins with the single-word...

... Cuzco on his expedition into Qollasuyu in 1538, reveals that the campaigns in the southern Andes were more protracted and the Spanish forces more vulnerable than we might have thought. For those who participated in the battles, the outcome was by no means predictable. Among the features that stand out...

... expedition. After a devastating ambush, his 26 September entry begins with the single-word sentence: “Defeat.” These stoic final notes, which follow, portray Che’s clarity and composure in the midst of growing adversity. He was seized on 8 October and executed the next day, though his example would inspire...