Haciendas, Indians and Economic Change in Chimborazo: Barbara Schroder
Citation Schroder, Barbara C. “Haciendas, Indians and Economic Change in Chimborazo, Ecuador.” Doctoral Dissertation, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1984.
Category: Review
Miners of the Red Mountain (Review)
Peter Bakewell’s Miners of the Red Mountain: Indian Labor in Potosí, 1545-1650 (1984) looks at the changing systems of labor and production used at the silver mines of Potosí in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Bakewell questions the long-held assumption that the mines were overwhelmingly worked by forced laborers, arguing instead that declining silver output and new refining technologies fueled the growth of a competitive market for specialized, wage-earning workers.… Read More Miners of the Red Mountain (Review)
Haciendas, Capital y Lucha de Clases Andina: Andrés Guerrero
Citation Guerrero, Andrés. Haciendas, capital y lucha de clases andina: Disolución de la hacienda serrana y lucha política en los años 1960-1964, 2nd ed. Quito: Editorial El Conejo, 1984 [1983].
Nueva Historia del Ecuador: Enrique Ayala
Citation Ayala Mora, Enrique, ed. Nueva Historia del Ecuador. Quito: Corporacion Editora Nacional, 1983.
Historia del Movimiento Obrero Ecuatoriano: Osvaldo Albornoz
Citation Albornoz Peralta, Osvaldo. Historia del movimiento obrero ecuatoriano: Breve síntesis. Quito: Editorial Letra Nueva, 1983.
Changes in the Land: William Cronon
William Cronon’s Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (1983) looks at environmental change and human landscaping in pre-Columbian and colonial New England. Cronon argues that what we think of as “nature” on the so-called American frontier was not an untouched and pristine wilderness, but a heavily landscaped environment where… Read More Changes in the Land: William Cronon
Farm and Factory: Nicholas Cushner
Nicholas Cushner’s Farm and Factory (1982) examines Jesuit hacienda holdings in the Los Chillos valley on the southeastern slopes of Quito between 1600 and the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767. Cushner uses the Black Robes to look at the rise of agrarian capitalism in colonial Quito as seen through changing systems land tenancy in… Read More Farm and Factory: Nicholas Cushner
El 15 de noviembre de 1922 y la fundación del socialismo: Manuel Donoso
Citation Donoso Armas, Manuel et al. El 15 de noviembre de 1922 y la fundación del socialismo: Relatados por sus protagonistas, 2 vols. Quito: Corporación Editora Nacional-INFOC, 1982.
The Process of Political Domination in Ecuador: Agustín Cueva
Citation Cueva, Agustín. The Process of Political Domination in Ecuador. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1982.
Peru’s Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest: Steve Stern
Stern, Steve J. Peru’s Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest: Huamanga to 1640. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982. Steve Stern’s Peru’s Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest: Huamanga to 1640 centers on colonial Huamanga, a strategic military and economic region along the route between Lima and Potosí. It was… Read More Peru’s Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest: Steve Stern
Slave over Master in Colonial Colombia and Ecuador: David Chandler
David Chandler’s “Slave Over Master in Colonial Colombia and Ecuador” (1982) looks at the development of the institution of slavery and the legal rights of enslaved Africans in the colonial Andes. Chandler argues that slavery as it was practiced in relatively peripheral parts of the Spanish Americas, like Colombia and Ecuador, was different than in… Read More Slave over Master in Colonial Colombia and Ecuador: David Chandler
The Lingering Death of Indian Tribute in Ecuador: Mark Van Aken
Citation Van Aken, Mark. “The Lingering Death of Indian Tribute in Ecuador.” The Hispanic American Historical Review 61, no. 3 (1981): 429–59.
Contribución a la Etnohistoria Ecuatoriana: Moreno and Oberem
Citation Moreno Yánez, Segundo E., and Udo Oberem. Contribución a La Etnohistoria Ecuatoriana. Quito: Instituto Otavaleño de Antropología, Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1995 [1981].
Peasant Cooperatives and Political Change in Peru: Cynthia McClintock
Cynthia McClintock’s monograph, Peasant Cooperatives and Political Change in Peru, looks at the social and political effect of the agrarian reforms of the Velasco administration between 1968 to 1975. Focusing closely on the 1969 hacienda expropriations and subsequent implementation of self-managing agrarian cooperatives, McClintock uses a series of social surveys, carried out by Cornell University… Read More Peasant Cooperatives and Political Change in Peru: Cynthia McClintock
La vida en Otavalo en el siglo XVIII: Lebret
Citation Lebret, Iveline. La vida en Otavalo en el siglo XVIII. Otavalo, Ecuador: Otavalo, Ecuador : Instituto Otavaleño de Antropología, 1981.
Demografía y Asentamientos Indígenas en la Sierra Norte del Ecuador en el Siglo XVI: Horacio Larraín
Horacio Larraín Barros’ Demografía y Asentamientos Indígenas En La Sierra Norte Del Ecuador En El Siglo XVI: Estudio Etnohistórico de Las Fuentes Tempranas, 1525-1600 (1980) is an ethnohistory of the northern Andean región in the Incan and Spanish colonial periods which sheds light on the impact of Incan attempts to reorganize life in what became… Read More Demografía y Asentamientos Indígenas en la Sierra Norte del Ecuador en el Siglo XVI: Horacio Larraín
El Reino de Quito en tiempo de Atahualpa: Velásquez
Citation Velásquez, César Vicente. El Reino de Quito en tiempo de Atahualpa. Quito, Ecuador: Quito, Ecuador : Edit. Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1980.
Quantifying the Nineteenth Century: Michael Hamerly
Citation Hamerly, Michael T. “Quantifying the Nineteenth Century: The Ministry Reports and Gazettes of Ecuador as Quantitative Sources.” Latin American Research Review 13, no. 2 (1978): 138–56.
Repartos y Rebeliones: Jürgen Golte
Jürgen Golte’s Repartos y Rebeliones, published in German in 1977 and translated into Spanish by Carlos Degregori in 1980, analyzes the implementation, evolution, and resistance to the repartimiento de efectos, put in place by Spain’s Bourbon reformers in the eighteenth century.[1] Golte sought to revise earlier studies that overlooked the role of the repartos, a… Read More Repartos y Rebeliones: Jürgen Golte
Sublevaciones Indigenas en la Audiencia de Quito: Segundo Moreno
Segundo Moreno Yánez’s Sublevaciones Indigenas En La Audiencia de Quito. Desde Comienzos Del Siglo XVIII Hasta Finales de La Colonia (1977) looks at ten riots, protests and other tumultos in colonial Quito between 1760 and 1803. Moreno argues that conflicts over labor and a lack of trust between Andean communities and the colony’s Creole elite… Read More Sublevaciones Indigenas en la Audiencia de Quito: Segundo Moreno
Conquest and Agrarian Change: Robert Keith
Robert Keith’s 1976 Conquest and Agrarian Change: The Emergence of the Hacienda System on the Peruvian Coast, explored the rise of Spanish plantations in seven valleys along Peru’s southern coast in the second half of the sixteenth century. Keith emphasized the legacy of pre-Colombian societies in the development of the hacienda, arguing that in addition… Read More Conquest and Agrarian Change: Robert Keith
La Incursión Inca en el Septentrión Andino Ecuatoriano: Fernando Plaza Schuller
Citation Plaza Schuller, Fernando. La Incursión Inca En El Septentrión Andino Ecuatoriano: Antecedentes Arqueológicos de La Convulsiva Situación de Contacto Cultural : Primer Informe Preliminar. Otavalo, Ecuador: Instituto Otavaleño de Antropología, 1976.
Los Indigenas de Altura del Ecuador: Emilio Bonifaz
Emilio Bonifaz’s Los Indigenas de Altura Del Ecuador (1979) is an agricultural history of Ecuador’s northern highlands in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, told from the viewpoint of one of the country’s wealthiest elites. While much of the social analysis of indigenous communities is based on now-discredited theories of scientific racism, his study of… Read More Los Indigenas de Altura del Ecuador: Emilio Bonifaz
La Incursión Inca En El Septentrión Andino Ecuatoriano: Plaza Schuller
Citation Plaza Schuller, Fernando. La Incursión Inca En El Septentrión Andino Ecuatoriano: Antecedentes Arqueológicos de La Convulsiva Situación de Contacto Cultural : Primer Informe Preliminar. Otavalo, Ecuador: Instituto Otavaleño de Antropología, 1976.
The Debate on Sunday Markets in Nineteenth-Century Ecuador: Rosemary Bromley and R. J. Bromley
Citation Bromley, Rosemary D. F., and R. J. Bromley. “The Debate on Sunday Markets in Nineteenth-Century Ecuador.” Journal of Latin American Studies 7, no. 1 (1975): 85–108.
Dolores Cacuango y las Luchas Indigenas de Cayambe: Osvaldo Albornoz
CitationAlbornoz Peralta, Osvaldo. Dolores Cacuango y las luchas indigenas de Cayambe. Guayaquil: Editorial Claridad S.A., 1975.
Economic Organization of the Inka State: John Murra
John Murra developed his now-famous theory of the Andean “vertical archipelago” in Formaciones Económicas y Políticas del Mundo Andino (1975, trans. Economic Organization of the Inka State, 1980), which grew out of his research in the Peruvian highlands between 1958 and 1973. Murra argued that pre-Columbian societies in the Andes sought to control a range of ecological zones… Read More Economic Organization of the Inka State: John Murra
Andean Rural Proletarians: Thomas Greaves
Anthropologist Thomas Greaves’ 1972 article, “The Andean Rural Proletarians” examined the critical role played by labor syndicates in the organization of regional peasant movements in the Ecuadorian highlands during the twentieth century. Greaves applies Sidney Mintz’s concept of the “rural proletarian” to the Andes to narrow what was then thought to constitute the so-called peasant… Read More Andean Rural Proletarians: Thomas Greaves
Las Luchas Indigenas en el Ecuador: Osvaldo Albornoz
Citation Albornoz Peralta, Osvaldo. Las luchas indigenas en el Ecuador. Guayaquil: Editorial Claridad S.A., 1971
The Rise of Peasant Unions on Traditional Ecuadorian Haciendas: Muriel Crespi
Anthropologist Muriel Crespi’s 1971 article, “Changing Power Relations: The Rise of Peasant Unions on Traditional Ecuadorian Haciendas,” explored the disruptive consequences of agrarian capitalism on rural authority structures in the mid-twentieth century. Focusing on the expropriation of Church-owned haciendas and the rise of Marxist-inspired peasant unions in the Ecuadorian highlands near Cayambe, Crespi argued that… Read More The Rise of Peasant Unions on Traditional Ecuadorian Haciendas: Muriel Crespi
Origen y evolución de una hacienda histórica: Emilio Bonifaz
Citation Bonifaz, Emilio. “Origen y evolución de una hacienda histórica: Guachalá’ II” Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Historia (BANH) 53, no. 115 (January-June 1970): 115-22.
Encomienda and Hacienda: James Lockhart
When historian James Lockhart published his renown article “Encomienda and Hacienda” in 1969, the modern historiography on haciendas was already more than forty-years-old. Yet even after decades, scholars were only beginning to understand these New World estates in terms of their origins and functions as colonial institutions. Early twentieth century scholars debated the extent of… Read More Encomienda and Hacienda: James Lockhart
Spanish Peru, 1532-1560: James Lockhart
James Lockhart’s Spanish Peru (1968) looks at the first three decades of Spanish conquest in the colonial Andes. One of the first Latin American historians to mine notarial records as a window into social life in the sixteenth century, Lockhart provides a survey of Peru’s major socioeconomic and demographic categories via a series of life… Read More Spanish Peru, 1532-1560: James Lockhart
