Search Results for Spanish Empire

...Victoria H. Cummins Juan de Ovando: Governing the Spanish Empire in the Reign of Philip II. By Stafford Poole. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. x + 293 pp., glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $37.95 cloth.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2006 Book Reviews Cannibal...

...Anderson Hagler Idolatry and the Construction of the Spanish Empire . By Mina García Soormally . ( Louisville : University Press of Colorado , 2018 . xvii+220 pp., preface, acknowledgments, appendices, references, index. $60.00 cloth.) Copyright 2021 by American Society...

... centroamericana, 1633–1786 . San José : Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica . Jefferys Thomas 1762 A Description of the Spanish Islands and Settlements on the Coast of the West Indies . London : Printed for T. Jefferys . Lee Wayne E. , ed. 2011 Empires and Indigenes...

...., introduction, illustrations, tables, maps, index. $40.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.) 2000 BookReviews Contested Ground: Comparative Frontiers on the Northern and South- ern Edges of the Spanish Empire. Edited by Donna J. Guy and Thomas E. Sheridan. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, xiii + pp...

... of legal activism and political leadership, with a notarial and administrative paper trail that allows ethnohistorians today to hypothesize about the singularity of native legal history and culture at the heart of the Spanish empire in America. The legal activism of the native officialdom also exemplifies...

... engaged with Spanish mediation between Indigenous peoples. As this article demonstrates, missionaries and soldiers brokered Indigenous peace agreements to protect overland communication between Sonora and Alta California and stake out a role for the empire in the river region. In turn, Native peoples...

...Andrés Reséndez Abstract Between the 1660s and the 1680s the Spanish Crown launched a major campaign to end the enslavement of Indians throughout its far-flung empire. Using this momentous crusade as a point of departure, this article identifies the principal slaving grounds of the Spanish empire...

...Jacob J. Sauer Abstract At the northern and southern ends of the Spanish “Empire,” two cultures of similar sociopolitical complexity violently removed Spanish invaders from their ancestral territory. The Che of southern Chile militarily engaged the Spanish in the mid-sixteenth century...

... on Chilean leaders, the article argues for the importance of indigenous practices of reciprocity and definitions of authority on the former frontiers of the Spanish Empire. These reciprocities governed interethnic encounters and changed the character of the conflict into a Mapuche war. References...

... to their traditional conceptions of just war. To them, such comportment marked their opponents as insurgents resisting not only their rightful place in the Spanish Empire but also civilization more broadly. In condemning their Highland Maya enemies as an ethical “other,” the conquistadors articulated a just cause...

... about bird raising and domestication among the multiethnic residents of Spanish America and to Spain. 16 Ximénez, a Guatemalan-born, self-taught chronicler and naturalist, included detailed information on birds in his natural history written from the edges of the Spanish empire. For instance, he...

... as a subject of analysis. When compared to the legal activities of inhabitants elsewhere in the empire, we find women's engagement with Spanish justice in Oaxaca was reluctant at best and, at times, at odds with judges' notion of the law as beyond the control of the participants. But women's instrumental...

... debts or to avoid other forms of forced labor. Thus indigenous participation in the empire was always tenuous and on the brink of breaking down. Copyright 2016 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2016 indigenous soldiers Philippines Spanish Empire military service In August 1642...

... products they obtained in Coimbra to the Spaniards in Concepción. 19 Consulting the documentation of both empires leaves no doubt about Guaicuru autonomy: they also sold Spanish cattle to the Portuguese in Coimbra. 20 They requested peace not because they might be facing a shortage of resources...

...Carla Hernández Garavito; Gabriela Oré Menéndez Abstract In the sixteenth century, the Spanish Crown moved to compile a comprehensive knowledge of its European and American landholdings to materialize the idea of a unified and civilized empire. Peninsular officials sent questionnaires...

...Dennis Ogburn This article analyzes the objectives and implications of the long-distance transport of building blocks in the Inca Empire. Recent research has demonstrated that the Incas transported building stones from Cuzco, Peru, to Saraguro, Ecuador, much as described by the Spanish chronicler...

... the Iberian Peninsula was transformed by the family ties that crossed the empire. Spanish fathers took their mixed-race children to Spain to be raised by wives and sisters. Madalena de la Paz, a free black woman, moved from Seville to Lima, but at her death designated her mulata sister in Seville as her...

.... Hamann analyzes these trials in dialogue to provide evidence of the interconnections across the Spanish empire in the sixteenth century. His focus on a “Mediterratlantic world” provides concrete examples of the global vision of early modern Spaniards, thus carrying forward the work of scholars...

... for the mines of New Spain. In these and other essays, Indian movement was one result of Spanish colonialism, and the Spanish empire integrated far-flung American spaces by bringing peoples to places they might otherwise have avoided. Another way the essays of Contested Spaces combine the local...

.... It offers an interpretive reconstruction of events that might have taken place there. Q'enqo is one of the most famous yet superficially known Inka ruins and is generally explained as a wak'a (shrine; Spanish huaca ) on the first Chinchaysuyu zeq'e line and as the locale where Pachakuti died. Second...