Sublevando el virreinato is a collection of 14 papers, all more or less related to the theme of correcting the traditional scholarship on colonial Peru, first presented at the 52nd International Congress of Americanists in Seville in 2006. Among the most notable contributions of the almost 500-page volume are two chapters on Gerónimo de Pallas. The first, by notable Sevillian historian Antonio Acosta, introduces the unpublished work (included as a CD at the end of the volume) that Pallas wrote as a young man to prepare Jesuit missionaries for their future work among the natives of America. The second, by Paulina Numhauser, continues Pallas’s story as one of many Italian Jesuits that through their teaching at schools (for which they became famous) and other means sowed the seeds of an anticolonial project that in the long run led to the independence movements of the early nineteenth century.
Giuseppe Piras expands...
