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. … Read More Plotting Pachakuti: Incan Conquest Sites in the Galvin Murúa
Gomezjurado Zevallos, Javier. Amor y sexo : en la historia de Quito. Quito: PPL Impresores, 2019.… Read More Amor y sexo en la historia de Quito: Gomezjurado
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: Corr
When historian James Lockhart published “Encomienda and Hacienda” in 1969, the modern historiography on the topic was already more than forty-years-old.… Read More Between Two Worlds: Andean Haciendas in Colonial History
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 … Read More Moving to the Suburbs: Reducciones in Recent Latin American Historiography
Citation Moreno Yánez, Segundo E. Simbolismo y ritual en las sublevaciones indígenas. Primera edición. Biblioteca de historia, volumen 47. Quito: Corporación Editora Nacional, 2017.
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. … Read More The Andean Wonder Drug: Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic: Crawford
Citation Gomezjurado Zevallos, Javier. Quito: Historia Del Cabildo y La Ciudad. Primera edición. Quito, Ecuador: Javier Gomezjurado Zevallos, 2015.
Citation Espinosa, Carlos R. El Inca barroco: política y estética en la Real Audiencia de Quito, 1630-1680. Quito, Ecuador: FLACSO Ecuador, 2015.
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 made by Walker that help shape our understanding of an uprising that ultimately reached levels of total violence rarely seen in human history. Walker’s “seemingly… Read More The Tupac Amaru Rebellion: Charles Walker
Citation Webster, Susan Verdi. Quito, Ciudad de Maestros: Arquitectos, Edificios y Urbanismo En El Largo Siglo XVII. Quito: Abya Yala, 2012.
CitationFerreiro, Larrie D. Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World. New York: Basic Books, 2011.
El Ecuador en la Historia, by Jorge Nunez Sanchez, is a survey of national history from the pre-Columbian period to the modern nation-state, focusing more heavily on the twentieth century. The book sheds light on early indigenous protests of colonial rule, labor organization, and liberal reforms in the early twentieth century, as well as the… Read More El Ecuador en la Historia: Jorge Nunez
Thomas Rogers’ The Deepest Wounds argues that Pernambuco sugar planters “saw no distinction between land and labor” (8). Enslaved and free workers on cane plantations were demoted in elites’ eyes to a level equal with the animals and the earth – merely another natural resource to be commanded by the planters (72-73). This monograph shows… Read More The Deepest Wounds: Thomas Rogers
Citation Black, Chad T. The Limits of Gender Domination: Women, the Law, and Political Crisis in Quito, 1765-1830. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2010.
Citation Powers, Karen Vieira. Andean Journeys: Migration, Ethnogenesis, and the State in Colonial Quito. Albuquerque: University Of New Mexico, 2009.
Citation Gauderman, Kimberly. Women’s Lives in Colonial Quito: Gender, Law, and Economy in Spanish America. University of Texas Press, 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 Milton, Cynthia E. The Many Meanings of Poverty: Colonialism, Social Compacts, and Assistance in Eighteenth-Century Ecuador. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2007.
Citation Tardieu, Jean-Pierre. El Negro En La Real Audiencia de Quito (Ecuador): Ss. XVI-XVIII. Quito: Abya-Yala; Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos, 2006.
Citation Herzog, Tamar. Upholding Justice: Society, State, and the Penal System in Quito (1650—1750). History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004.
Citation Benavides, O. Hugo. Making Ecuadorian Histories: Four Centuries of Defining Power. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004.
Citation Sevilla Larrea, Carmen. Vida y Muerte en Quito: Raíces del Sujeto Moderno en la Colonia Temprana. 2da. ed. Quito: Abya Yala, 2003.
Citation Cahill, David Patrick, and Blanca Tovías, eds. Elites Indígenas En Los Andes: Nobles, Caciques y Cabildantes Bajo El Yugo Colonial. 1. ed. Quito, Ecuador: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 2003.
Citation Lane, Kris E. Quito 1599: City and Colony in Transition. 1st ed. Diálogos. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002.
Citation Núñez, Jorge. Historias Del País de Quito. 1. ed. Quito: Eskletra Editorial, 1999.
Citation Ponce, Pilar. Certezas Ante La Incertidumbre: Élite y Cabildo de Quito En El Siglo XVII. 1a ed. Quito: Abya-Yala, 1998.
Citation Johnson, Lyman L., and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, eds. The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America. 1st ed. Diálogos. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1998.
Citation Borchart de Moreno, Christiana. La Audiencia de Quito: Aspectos económicos y sociales (Siglos XVI – XVIII). Colección Pendoneros, Nr. 23. Quito: Ed. del Banco Central del Ecuador, 1998.
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 “Bartolomé de Las Casas,” 1997.
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
Citation Lavallé, Bernard. Quito y la crisis de la Alcabala (1580-1600). 2. ed. Biblioteca de historia ecuatoriana 16. Quito: Corporación Editora Nacional, 1997.
Citation Borchart de Moreno, Christiana, and Segundo E. Moreno Yánez. Crónica indiana del Ecuador antiguo. Quito: Ed. Abya-Yala, 1997.
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