Andean Worlds: Indigenous History, Culture, and Consciousness under Spanish Rule, 1532-1825 (Diálogos Series)

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This broadly gauged, synthetic study examines how the Spanish invasion of the Inca Empire (known as Tawintinsuyu) in 1532 brought dramatic and irreversible transformations in traditional Andean modes of production, technology, politics, religion, culture, and social hierarchies. On the same time, Professor Andrien explains how the indigenous peoples merged these changes with their own political, socioeconomic, and spiritual traditions. In this way European and indigenous life ways became intertwined, producing a new and continuously evolving hybrid colonial order in the Andes.

After beginning with a study of Tawintinsuyu at the eve of the Spanish invasion, Andrien then presents the salient topics in Andean colonial history: the emergence of the colonial state; the colonial socioeconomic order; indigenous culture and society; Spanish attempts to impose Roman Catholic orthodoxy; and Andean resistance, revolt, and political consciousness. By drawing on his own research and the contributions from scholars in many disciplines, Kenneth J. Andrien offers a masterful interpretation of Andean colonial history, some of the dynamic and creative fields in Latin American studies.

“It is a clearly written, comprehensive, and well-balanced account. . . particularly in discussions of the frequently vexed and central question of Spanish as opposed to Native American issues.”–Peter J. Bakewell, Edmund and Louise Kahn Professor of History, Southern Methodist University

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