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Indigenous Revolution in Ecuador and Bolivia: Paige
Paige, Jeffery M. Indigenous Revolution in Ecuador and Bolivia, 1990-2005. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2020.
Pre-Colombian History
Cayambe Mitma Sites After Incan Conquest: Map
Long before the Spanish conquest, an invading army of soldiers fighting for the Inca state conquered what is today northern Ecuador.
Geographic landmarks and cultural sites at Guachalá: Map
Geographic landmarks and cultural sites around Guachalá, including Pambamarca complex and territory southeast of the Río Pisque.
Plotting Pachakuti: Incan Conquest Sites in the Galvin Murúa
Martín de Murúa was a Basque Mercedarian friar who wrote the Historia General del Piru (c.1580-1616), an illustrated history of what are today the South American nations of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.
Amor y sexo en la historia de Quito: Gomezjurado
Gomezjurado Zevallos, Javier. Amor y sexo : en la historia de Quito. Quito: PPL Impresores, 2019.
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Colonial History
Interwoven: Andean Lives in Colonial Ecuador’s Textile Economy: Corr
Corr, Rachel. Interwoven: Andean Lives in Colonial Ecuador’s Textile Economy. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2018.
Between Two Worlds: Andean Haciendas in Colonial History
When historian James Lockhart published “Encomienda and Hacienda” in 1969, the modern historiography on the topic was already more than forty-years-old.
Moving to the Suburbs: Reducciones in Recent Latin American Historiography
In 1503, the Spanish monarchy issued its first decree for the resettlement of indigenous groups in the Caribbean so that they would “live together” and
Simbolismo y ritual en las sublevaciones indígenas: Moreno
Citation Moreno Yánez, Segundo E. Simbolismo y ritual en las sublevaciones indígenas. Primera edición. Biblioteca de historia, volumen 47. Quito: Corporación Editora Nacional, 2017.
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19th Century History
Peasant Power 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.
Writing Revolution: Republican Politics in Three Cuban Histories
Luis E. Aguilar, Samuel Farber, and Robert Whitney present three complimentary interpretations of Cuba’s 1933 Revolution and the social unrest that led to the 1959 Revolution.[1] The authors explore the role of rising mass society, the influence of political and intellectual elites, and the impact of the United States’ intervention in Cuban affairs to shed…
Historia de la Conservación Ambiental en el Ecuador: Bustamante
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: Chamorro
Citation Chamorro Espinosa, David. Regreso y expulsión de la Compañia de Jesús de la República del Ecuador 1850-1852. Quito: Quito Dinediciones, 2014.
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20th Century History
Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco: Canova
Canova, Paola. Frontier Intimacies: Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020.
Urban Mountain Beings: History, Indigeneity, and Geographies of Time in Quito: Fine-Dare
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: Huarcaya
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.
The FBI in Latin America: The Ecuador Files: Becker
Becker, Marc. The FBI in Latin America: The Ecuador Files. Radical Perspectives : A Radical History Review Book Series. Durham ; London: Duke University Press, 2017.
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21st Century History
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
Inka Militarism at the Pambamarca Complex: Connell et al
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.
Survival and Subjugation in Colonial Latin America
Indigenous elites stood at the intersection of political subjugation and cultural survival in Spanish and Portuguese America.
Ecuador’s Environmental Revolutions: Lewis
Lewis, Tammy L. Ecuador’s Environmental Revolutions: Ecoimperialists, Ecodependents, and Ecoresisters, 2017.
El Sistema Político Ecuatoriano: Freidenberg and Pachano
Citation Flavia Freidenberg and Simón Pachano, El Sistema Político Ecuatoriano, Serie Atrio (Quito, Ecuador: FLACSO Ecuador, 2016).
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Ecuadorian History
Investigación Subacuática en las Lagunas de Yahuarcocha: Echeverría and Athens
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.
The Andean Wonder Drug: Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic: Crawford
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.
Quito: Historia Del Cabildo y La Ciudad: Gomezjurado
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: Espinosa
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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