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Luis Gerónimo de Oré: The World of an Andean Franciscan from the Frontiers to the Centers of Power (Review)
In 1586, a 32-year-old Franciscan friar named Luis Gerónimo de Oré began his first job in an Indigenous parish in the Colca Valley in the Peruvian Andes as an “outsider…
Pre-Colombian History
Amor y sexo en la historia de Quito (Review)
Gomezjurado Zevallos, Javier. Amor y sexo : en la historia de Quito. Quito: PPL Impresores, 2019.
Inka Militarism at the Pambamarca Complex (Review)
Citation Connell, Samuel V., Amber Anderson, Chad Gifford, and Ana Lucía González. “Inka Militarism at the Pambamarca Complex in Northern Ecuador.” Latin American Antiquity 30, no. 1 (March 2019): 177–97.
Simbolismo y Ritual en las Sublevaciones Indígenas (Review)
Citation Moreno Yánez, Segundo E. Simbolismo y ritual en las sublevaciones indígenas. Primera edición. Biblioteca de historia, volumen 47. Quito: Corporación Editora Nacional, 2017.
Investigación Subacuática en las Lagunas de Yahuarcocha (Review)
Echeverría-Almeida and Athens underwater survey of the Laguna Yahuarcocha (Lake of Blood) builds on earlier subaquatic research performed in the lake in the early 2000s.
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Colonial History
Mastering the Law: Slavery and Freedom in the Legal Ecology of the Spanish Empire (Review)
In 1629, Catalina Angola and Domingo Angola, two African-born captives enslaved near what is today the northern Colombian city of Cartagena, learned that Catalina’s enslaver was moving her to the…
Survival and Subjugation in Colonial Latin America
Indigenous elites stood at the intersection of political subjugation and cultural survival in Spanish and Portuguese America.
Interwoven: Andean Lives in Colonial Ecuador’s Textile Economy (Review)
Corr, Rachel. Interwoven: Andean Lives in Colonial Ecuador’s Textile Economy. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2018.
Peasant Power and Rural Revolutions in Andean History
Like many global hot spots of the twentieth century, the Andes is marked by its history of structural inequality, racial conflict, and legacies of poverty and violence.
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19th-Century History
Historia de la Conservación Ambiental en el Ecuador (Review)
Bustamante Ponce, Teodoro. Historia de La Conservación Ambiental En El Ecuador: Volcanes, Tortugas, Geólogos y Políticos. 1. ed. Serie Atrio. Quito, Ecuador: FLACSO Ecuador : Editorial Abya Yala, 2016.
Regreso y expulsión de la Compañia de Jesús de la República del Ecuador (Review)
Citation Chamorro Espinosa, David. Regreso y expulsión de la Compañia de Jesús de la República del Ecuador 1850-1852. Quito: Quito Dinediciones, 2014.
Etnicidad y Globalización: Las Otavaleñas en Casa y en el Mndo (Review)
Citation D’Amico, Linda. Etnicidad y globalización: las otavaleñas en casa y en el mundo. Atrio. Quito, Ecuador: FLACSO Ecuador : Abya-Yala, 2014.
Constitutive Visions: Indigeneity and Commonplaces of National Identity in Republican Ecuador (Review)
Citation Olson, Christa J. Constitutive Visions: Indigeneity and Commonplaces of National Identity in Republican Ecuador. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014.
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20th-Century History
Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco (Review)
Canova, Paola. Frontier Intimacies: Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020.
Indigenous Revolution in Ecuador and Bolivia (Review)
Paige, Jeffery M. Indigenous Revolution in Ecuador and Bolivia, 1990-2005. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2020.
Urban Mountain Beings: History, Indigeneity, and Geographies of Time in Quito (Review)
Fine-Dare, Kathleen S. Urban Mountain Beings: History, Indigeneity, and Geographies of Time in Quito, Ecuador. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2020.
Land Reform, Historical Consciousness and Indigenous Activism in Late Twentieth-Century Ecuador (Review)
Huarcaya, Sergio Miguel. “Land Reform, Historical Consciousness and Indigenous Activism in Late Twentieth-Century Ecuador.” Journal of Latin American Studies 50, no. 02 (May 2018): 411–40.
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21st-Century History
Correa, China y la Asamblea, Afectados por el Informe de la Deuda
El informe borrador –el cual aún no es concluyente– de la Contraloría sobre la deuda pública, presentado el 14 de marzo pasado, es un triunfo estratégico para el presidente Lenín…
Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia: Rappaport
Rappaport, Joanne. Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia. Latin America Otherwise. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.
Andean History
Ecuador Habló: La Minería es Peor que Correa
El referéndum del 4 de febrero fue significativo. En su nivel más obvio, le dio al presidente Lenín Moreno una sólida victoria política y al expresidente Rafael Correa una derrota…
The FBI in Latin America: The Ecuador Files (Review)
Becker, Marc. The FBI in Latin America: The Ecuador Files. Radical Perspectives : A Radical History Review Book Series. Durham ; London: Duke University Press, 2017.
Ecuador’s Environmental Revolutions (Review)
Lewis, Tammy L. Ecuador’s Environmental Revolutions: Ecoimperialists, Ecodependents, and Ecoresisters, 2017.
El Sistema Político Ecuatoriano (Review)
Citation Flavia Freidenberg and Simón Pachano, El Sistema Político Ecuatoriano, Serie Atrio (Quito, Ecuador: FLACSO Ecuador, 2016).
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Bolivian History
The Tupac Amaru Rebellion: Charles Walker
Charles Walker left few stones unturned in The Tupac Amaru Rebellion, an impressive analysis of Spain’s largest colonial rebellion. This essay briefly examines two original arguments and two secondary claims…
Trials of Nation Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810–1910: Larson
Citation Larson, Brooke. Trials of Nation Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810–1910. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Oppressed But Not Defeated: Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
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…
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…
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Chilean History
Colombian History
Ecuadorian History
The Andean Wonder Drug: Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic (Review)
Matthew Crawford’s The Andean Wonder Drug is a fascinating history of quina, the medicinal tree bark of the chinchona tree, native to the Andean forests of South America.
Eight Defaults and 180 Years Later, Ecuador to Repay Bondholders
Ecuador is poised to do something it’s never done in its more than 180-year history: repay a bond.
Quito: Historia Del Cabildo y La Ciudad (Review)
Citation Gomezjurado Zevallos, Javier. Quito: Historia Del Cabildo y La Ciudad. Primera edición. Quito, Ecuador: Javier Gomezjurado Zevallos, 2015.
El Inca barroco: política y estética en la Real Audiencia de Quito (Review)
Citation Espinosa, Carlos R. El Inca barroco: política y estética en la Real Audiencia de Quito, 1630-1680. Quito, Ecuador: FLACSO Ecuador, 2015.
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Peruvian History
Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform (Review)
Enrique Mayer’s Ugly Stories of Peruvian Agrarian Reform, a “people-oriented kind of oral history,” provides a memory study of the 1969 land reforms enacted by Peruvian President Juan Velasco…
Producción y Comercio de Tejidos Coloniales: Los Obrajes y Chorrillos Del Cusco, 1570-1820: Escandell Tur
Citation Escandell Tur, Neus. Producción y Comercio de Tejidos Coloniales: Los Obrajes y Chorrillos Del Cusco, 1570-1820. Archivos de Historia Andina 23. Cusco, Perú: Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos…
From Two Republics to One Divided: Contradictions of Postcolonial Nationmaking in Andean Peru (Review)
Mark Thurner, From Two Republics to One Divided: Contradictions of Postcolonial Nationmaking in Andean Peru, Latin America Otherwise : Languages, Empires, Nations (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997).
Changing Fortunes: Karl Zimmerer
Karl Zimmerer’s Changing Fortunes: Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the Peruvian Andes looks at agriculture systems and species biodiversity in the Peruvian Andes in the late twentieth century. Focusing…
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