The People of Quito, 1690-1810: Change and Unrest in the Underclass: Minchom
Citation Minchom, Martin. The People of Quito, 1690-1810: Change and Unrest in the Underclass. Dellplain Latin American Studies, no. 32. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994.
Tag: Latin America
A Plague of Sheep: Elinor Melville
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
Agrarian Protest and the Indian Movement in the Ecuadorian Highlands: Zamosc
Citation Zamosc, Leon. “Agrarian Protest and the Indian Movement in the Ecuadorian Highlands.” Latin American Reserarch Review 29, no. 3 (1994): 37-68.
Los Encomenderos de Quito, 1534-1660: Origen y Evolución de Una Elite Colonial: Ortiz de la Tabla
Citation Ortiz de la Tabla Ducasse, Javier. Los Encomenderos de Quito, 1534-1660: Origen y Evolución de Una Elite Colonial. Sevilla: Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, 1993.
El Levantamiento Indígena del Inti Raymi de 1990: Moreno
Citation Moreno Yáñez, Segundo, and José Figueroa. El Levantamiento Indígena Del Inti Raymi de 1990. Quito, Ecuador: Fundación Ecuatoriana de Estudios Sociales : Editorial ABYA-YALA, 1992.
Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America: Asunción Lavrin
Asunción Lavrin’s edited volume, Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America, presents a series of perspectives on what Lavrin calls the “conquest of the mind,” the means through which the Spanish state and Catholic Church sought to maintain control over colonial society. The authors challenge received understandings of the region’s early history by showing the… Read More Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America: Asunción Lavrin
Las Crisis En El Ecuador: Los Treinta y Ochenta: Thorp et al.
Citation Thorp, Rosemary, ed. Las Crisis En El Ecuador: Los Treinta y Ochenta. Biblioteca de Ciencias Sociales, v. 33. Quito, Ecuador: Corporación Editora Nacional, 1991.
Native Society and Disease in Colonial Ecuador: Suzanne Alchon
Suzanne Alchon: Native Society and Disease in Colonial Ecuador (1991) explores the relationship between epidemic diseases and indigenous populations in the north-central highlands of Ecuador in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Alchon argues that appreciating the role of epidemics in everything from food security to politics is critical to understanding changes in regional history in… Read More Native Society and Disease in Colonial Ecuador: Suzanne Alchon
Andean Ecology: Adaptive Dynamics in Ecuador: Knapp
Citation Knapp, Gregory W. Andean Ecology: Adaptive Dynamics in Ecuador. Dellplain Latin American Studies, no. 27. Boulder: Westview Press, 1991.
La Semántica de La Dominación: El Concertaje de Indios: Guerrero
Citation Guerrero, Andrés. La Semántica de La Dominación: El Concertaje de Indios. Primera edición. Quito, Ecuador: Ediciones Libri Mundi, E. Grosse-Luemern, 1991.
De la Economía a las Mentalidades (Cambio Social y Conflicto Agragrio en el Ecuador
Citation Guerrero, Andrés. De la economía a las mentalidades (Cambio social y conflicto agragrio en el Ecuador). Quito: Editorial El Conejo, 1991.
Poetics and Politics in the Ecuadorean Andes: Women’s Narratives of Death and Devil Possession: Crain
Citation Crain, Mary M. “Poetics and Politics in the Ecuadorean Andes: Women’s Narratives of Death and Devil Possession.” American Ethnologist 18, no. 1 (1991): 67–89.
‘Moving up-Moving down’: Agro-Pastoral Land-Use Patterns in the Ecuadorian Paramos: Hess
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.
From Hacienda to Family Farm: Changes in Environment and Society in Pimampiro, Ecuador: Preston
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.
The Money Doctor in the Andes: The Kemmerer Missions, 1923–1933: Drake
Citation Drake, Paul W. The Money Doctor in the Andes: The Kemmerer Missions, 1923–1933. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1989.
Peasant Struggles and Agrarian Reform: The Ecuadorian Sierra and the Colombian Atlantic Coast in Comparative Perspective: Zamosc
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.
Luces y Sombas del Liberalism
Citation Albornoz Peralta, Osvaldo. Ecuador: Luces y sombas del liberalism. Quito: El Duende, 1989.
El Partido Socialista Ecuatoriano en la Historia: Ayala
Citation Ayala Mora, Enrique. El Partido Socialista Ecuatoriano en la historia. Quito: Ediciones La Tierra, 1988.
La Resistencia Andina: Galo Ramón
Citation Ramón Valarezo, Galo. La resistencia andina: Cayambe 1.500-1.800. Cuaderno de Discusión Popular. Quito: Centro Andino de Accion Popular, 1987.
Jesus Gualavisí y las luchas indígenas en el Ecuador: Osvaldo Albornoz
Citation Albornoz Peralta, Osvaldo. “Jesus Gualavisí y las luchas indígenas en el Ecuador.” In Los comunistas en la historia nacional, ed. Domingo paredes, 155-88. Guayaquil: Editorial Claridad S.A., 1987.
Del Valle al Monte: Christoph Stadel
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.
Pensamiento Agrario Ecuatoriano: Carlos Marchán
Citation Marchán Romero, Carlos, ed. Pensamiento agrario ecuatoriano. Quito: Banco Central el Ecuador; Corporación Editora Nacional, 1986.
Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas: Frank Salomon
Frank Salomon’s Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas (1985) is still the most complete ethnohistory of the Ecuadorian Andes in English. Making extensive use of indigenous legal documents from the early colonial period, Salomon focuses on what is today the city of Quito and the Los Chillos valley, as well as… Read More Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas: Frank Salomon
The Social Organization of Property and Work: Wendy Weiss
Citation Weiss, Wendy A. “The Social Organization of Property and Work: A Study of Migrants from the Rural Ecuadorian Sierra.” American Ethnologist 12, no. 3 (1985): 468–88.
The Search for Public Policy: Regional Politics and Government Finances in Ecuador, 1830-1940: Rodríguez
Citation Rodríguez, Linda Alexander. The Search for Public Policy: Regional Politics and Government Finances in Ecuador, 1830-1940. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985
Huarochirí: Karen Spalding
Karen Spalding’s history of colonial Peru, Huarochirí, begins with the origins of Andean society, following social changes from pre-Inca days until the height of colonial rule. Written in the mid-1980s amidst a brutal economic crisis that inordinately impacted indigenous communities in areas like Huarochirí, this monograph seems an attempt to revalorize Andean society at a… Read More Huarochirí: Karen Spalding
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.
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.
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.
