Citation Ortiz de la Tabla Ducasse, Javier. Los Encomenderos de Quito, 1534-1660: Origen y Evolución de Una Elite Colonial. Sevilla: Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, 1993.
Citation Moreno Yáñez, Segundo, and José Figueroa. El Levantamiento Indígena Del Inti Raymi de 1990. Quito, Ecuador: Fundación Ecuatoriana de Estudios Sociales : Editorial ABYA-YALA, 1992.
Bray, Tamara L. “Archaeological Survey in Northern Highland Ecuador: Inca Imperialism and the País Caranqui.” World Archaeology 24, no. 2 (October 1992): 218–33. Tamara Bray’s “Archaeological Survey in Northern Highland Ecuador: Inca Imperialism and the País Caranqui” documents the presence of local and Incan influences in the Guayllabamba basin, an area that represented the Incas’… Read More Archaeological Survey in Northern Highland Ecuador: Inca Imperialism and the País Caranqui: Bray
Citation Avellaneda Navas, José Ignacio. La expedición de Sebastián de Belalcázar al Mar del Norte y su llegada al Nuevo Reino de Granada. Colección Bibliográfica. Bogotá: Banco de la República, 1992.
Asunción Lavrin’s edited volume, Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America, presents a series of perspectives on what Lavrin calls the “conquest of the mind,” the means through which the Spanish state and Catholic Church sought to maintain control over colonial society. The authors challenge received understandings of the region’s early history by showing the… Read More Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America: Asunción Lavrin
Citation Villalba F., Jorge. El Licenciado Miguel de Ibarra, Sexto Presidente de La Audiencia de Quito, Su Gobernador y Capitán General, 1550-1608. Quito: Centro de Publicaciones, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, 1991.
Citation Thorp, Rosemary, ed. Las Crisis En El Ecuador: Los Treinta y Ochenta. Biblioteca de Ciencias Sociales, v. 33. Quito, Ecuador: Corporación Editora Nacional, 1991.
Suzanne Alchon: Native Society and Disease in Colonial Ecuador (1991) explores the relationship between epidemic diseases and indigenous populations in the north-central highlands of Ecuador in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Alchon argues that appreciating the role of epidemics in everything from food security to politics is critical to understanding changes in regional history in… Read More Native Society and Disease in Colonial Ecuador: Suzanne Alchon
Citation Knapp, Gregory W. Andean Ecology: Adaptive Dynamics in Ecuador. Dellplain Latin American Studies, no. 27. Boulder: Westview Press, 1991.
Citation Guerrero, Andrés. La Semántica de La Dominación: El Concertaje de Indios. Primera edición. Quito, Ecuador: Ediciones Libri Mundi, E. Grosse-Luemern, 1991.
Citation Guerrero, Andrés. De la economía a las mentalidades (Cambio social y conflicto agragrio en el Ecuador). Quito: Editorial El Conejo, 1991.
Citation Crain, Mary M. “Poetics and Politics in the Ecuadorean Andes: Women’s Narratives of Death and Devil Possession.” American Ethnologist 18, no. 1 (1991): 67–89.
Citation Hess, Carmen G. “‘Moving up-Moving down’: Agro-Pastoral Land-Use Patterns in the Ecuadorian Paramos.” Mountain Research and Development 10, no. 4 (1990): 333–42.
Citation Preston, David A. “From Hacienda to Family Farm: Changes in Environment and Society in Pimampiro, Ecuador.” The Geographical Journal 156, no. 1 (1990): 31–38.
Citation Drake, Paul W. The Money Doctor in the Andes: The Kemmerer Missions, 1923–1933. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1989.
Citation Zamosc, Léon. Peasant Struggles and Agrarian Reform: The Ecuadorian Sierra and the Colombian Atlantic Coast in Comparative Perspective. Latin American Issues. Published jointly by Allegheny College and the Dept. of History of the University of Akron, 1989.
Citation Albornoz Peralta, Osvaldo. Ecuador: Luces y sombas del liberalism. Quito: El Duende, 1989.
Citation Espinoza Soriano, Waldemar. Los Cayambes y Carangues: Siglos XV-XVI : El Testimonio de La Etnohistoria. 2 vols. Colección Curiñán. Quito: Instituto Otavaleño de Antropología, 1988.
Citation Ramos Gómez, Oscar Gerardo. Sebastián de Benalcázar: Conquistador de Quito y Popayán. Biblioteca Iberoamericana, no. 88. Madrid: Anaya, 1988.
Citation Ayala Mora, Enrique. El Partido Socialista Ecuatoriano en la historia. Quito: Ediciones La Tierra, 1988.
Citation Ramón Valarezo, Galo. La resistencia andina: Cayambe 1.500-1.800. Cuaderno de Discusión Popular. Quito: Centro Andino de Accion Popular, 1987.
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui’s Oppressed but Not Defeated, on the struggles of Aymara and Quechua peasants in the highlands and western valleys of the Bolivian Andes, focuses on the creation of peasant unions after the 1952 revolution by the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario. Her book is a concise collection of essays written in collaboration with Bolivian peasant… Read More Oppressed But Not Defeated: Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
Citation Albornoz Peralta, Osvaldo. “Jesus Gualavisí y las luchas indígenas en el Ecuador.” In Los comunistas en la historia nacional, ed. Domingo paredes, 155-88. Guayaquil: Editorial Claridad S.A., 1987.
Citation Stadel, Christoph. “Del Valle al Monte: Altitudinal Patterns of Agricultural Activities in the Patate-Pelileo Area of Ecuador.” Mountain Research and Development 6, no. 1 (1986): 53–62.
Citation Marchán Romero, Carlos, ed. Pensamiento agrario ecuatoriano. Quito: Banco Central el Ecuador; Corporación Editora Nacional, 1986.
Sociologist Léon Zamosc’s The Agrarian Question and the Peasant Movement in Colombia, looks at the development of agrarian capitalism and peasant land struggles in Colombia between 1967 and 1981. In ten concise chapters, Zamosc analyzes differences in agrarian strategies, changes in peasant-state relations, and what he calls the politics and ideology of the “peasant challenge,”… Read More The Agrarian Question and the Peasant Movement in Colombia: Léon Zamosc
Frank Salomon’s Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas (1985) is still the most complete ethnohistory of the Ecuadorian Andes in English. Making extensive use of indigenous legal documents from the early colonial period, Salomon focuses on what is today the city of Quito and the Los Chillos valley, as well as… Read More Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas: Frank Salomon
Citation Weiss, Wendy A. “The Social Organization of Property and Work: A Study of Migrants from the Rural Ecuadorian Sierra.” American Ethnologist 12, no. 3 (1985): 468–88.
Magnus Mörner’s The Andean Past: Land, Societies, and Conflicts (1985) is a wide-ranging survey of Andean history since conquest, focusing on classic political, social, and economic themes. In his discussion of Andean rural history, Mörner says historians should view the development of haciendas in terms of their wider commercial networks and argues that international export… Read More The Andean Past: Magnus Mörner
Citation Rodríguez, Linda Alexander. The Search for Public Policy: Regional Politics and Government Finances in Ecuador, 1830-1940. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985
Karen Spalding’s history of colonial Peru, Huarochirí, begins with the origins of Andean society, following social changes from pre-Inca days until the height of colonial rule. Written in the mid-1980s amidst a brutal economic crisis that inordinately impacted indigenous communities in areas like Huarochirí, this monograph seems an attempt to revalorize Andean society at a… Read More Huarochirí: Karen Spalding
Citation Rodríguez Castelo, Hernán, ed. Letras de La Audiencia de Quito, Período Jesuítico. Biblioteca Ayacucho 112. Caracas, Venezuela: Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1984.
Citation Schroder, Barbara C. “Haciendas, Indians and Economic Change in Chimborazo, Ecuador.” Doctoral Dissertation, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1984.
