Corr, Rachel. Interwoven: Andean Lives in Colonial Ecuador’s Textile Economy. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2018.… Read More Interwoven: Andean Lives in Colonial Ecuador’s Textile Economy (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.… Read More Land Reform, Historical Consciousness and Indigenous Activism in Late Twentieth-Century Ecuador (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.
Citation Jamieson, Ross W. “Hacienda Ruins as Sites of Difficult Memory in Chimborazo, Ecuador.” Journal of Social Archaeology 14, no. 2 (June 2014): 224–43.
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 Alvarado. Written from the perspective of historical stakeholders and incorporating Mayer’s lifelong participation in the reforms as an academic observer, he weaves a series of testimonies into a larger narrative chronicling this period of “revolutionary reforms gone astray.” … Read More Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform (Review)
Citation Becker, Marc, and Silvia Tutillo. Historia Agraria y Social de Cayambe. Quito: Abya-Yala, 2009.
Citation Jamieson, Ross W. “The Market for Meat in Colonial Cuenca: A Seventeenth-Century Urban Faunal Assemblage from the Southern Highlands of Ecuador.” Historical Archaeology 42, no. 4 (December 2008): 21–37.
Citation Moreno Yánez, Segundo. Historia Antigua Del País Imbaya. Quito: Universidad de Otavalo, 2007.
Citation Lyons, Barry J. Remembering the Hacienda: Religion, Authority, and Social Change in Highland Ecuador. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.
Citation Ferraro, Emilia. “Culture and Economy: The Case of the Milk Market in the Northern Andes of Ecuador.” Ethnology 45, no. 1 (2006): 25–39.
Citation Striffler, Steve. “Class Formation in Latin America: One Family’s Enduring Journey between Country and City.” International Labor and Working-Class History, no. 65 (2004): 11–25.
Citation Ferraro, Emilia. Reciprocidad, Don y Deuda: Relaciones y Formas de Intercambio En Los Andes Ecuatorianos: La Comunidad de Pesillo. Quito: FLACSO-Abya Yala, 2004.
Citation López Sandoval, María Fernanda. Agricultural and Settlement Frontiers in the Tropical Andes: The Páramo Belt of Northern Ecuador, 1960-1990. Regensburg: Institut für Geographie an der Universität Regensburg, 2004.
Citation Williams, Derek. “Popular Liberalism and Indian Servitude: The Making and Unmaking of Ecuador’s Antilandlord State, 1845-1868.” Hispanic American Historical Review 83, no. 4 (November 2003): 697-733.
Citation López Paredes, Dolores. “Aproximación histórica de los cambios de la seguridad y consumo alimentario entre los pueblos quichuas de la sierra ecuatoriana : Otavalos y Cayambis en la cuenca del Lago San Pablo, provincia de Imbabura,” November 6, 2002. http://repositorio.flacsoandes.edu.ec/handle/10469/709.
Citation Striffler, Steve. In the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.
Citation Bebbington, Anthony. “Reencountering Development: Livelihood Transitions and Place Transformations in the Andes.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 90, no. 3 (2000): 495–520.
Citation Hamilton, Sarah. The Two-Headed Household: Gender and Rural Development in the Ecuadorean Andes. Pitt Latin American Series. Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998.
Citation Guerrero, Andrés. “The Construction of a Ventriloquist’s Image: Liberal Discourse and the ‘Miserable Indian Race’ in Late-Nineteenth-Century Ecuador.” Journal of Latin American Studies 29, no. 3 (October 1997): 555-90.
Warren Dean’s With Broadax and Firebrand is a history of the destructive impact of human activity on the Atlantic forests of Brazil. Chronicling social attitudes towards nature and the impact of those attitudes on the forests from pre-Columbian times to the present, he highlights the ultimately unproductive exploitation of Brazilian natural resources, which left the… Read More With Broadax and Firebrand: Warren Dean
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 on an indigenous community in Paucartambo region, near Cuzco, the author explores the divergent fortunes of different communities in this area as they adapted to changing… Read More Changing Fortunes: Karl Zimmerer
Elinor Melville’s A Plague of Sheep (1994) examines the effects of sheep ranching on the environment in the Valle de Mezquital in colonial Mexico. Melville traces the processes that turned a wooded, well-irrigated landscape into desolate pasture lands. She weaves disease, territorial control, ungulate irruptions, and the collapse and consolidation of regional land tenancy into… Read More A Plague of Sheep: Elinor Melville
Citation Zamosc, Leon. “Agrarian Protest and the Indian Movement in the Ecuadorian Highlands.” Latin American Reserarch Review 29, no. 3 (1994): 37-68.
Citation Guerrero, Andrés. De la economía a las mentalidades (Cambio social y conflicto agragrio en el Ecuador). Quito: Editorial El Conejo, 1991.
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 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 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 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.
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 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.
