The Kingdom of Quito, 1690-1830: The State and Regional Development: Andrien
Citation Andrien, Kenneth J. The Kingdom of Quito, 1690-1830: The State and Regional Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Tag: Politics
El Guamán, El Puma y El Amaru: Formación Estructural Del Gobierno Indígena En Ecuador: Burgos
Citation Burgos Guevara, Hugo. El Guamán, El Puma y El Amaru: Formación Estructural Del Gobierno Indígena En Ecuador. 1a. ed. Colección “Biblioteca Abya-Yala 29. Quito, Ecuador: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1995.
El Rey de La Noche : Juan José Flores y El Ecuador ; 1824-1864: Van Aken
Citation Van Aken, Mark. El Rey de La Noche : Juan José Flores y El Ecuador ; 1824-1864. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1995.
Thread of Blood: Ana María Alonso
The role of violence and the importance of cultural identity in the struggles between indigenous communities and the nation-state are the subjects of Ana María Alonso’s monograph, Thread of Blood: Colonialism, Revolution, and Gender on Mexico’s Northern Frontier (1995). This anthropological history of machismo in the culturally-mestizo Namiquipa community in Chihuahua looks at how violence,… Read More Thread of Blood: Ana María Alonso
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.
El Licenciado Miguel de Ibarra, Sexto Presidente de La Audiencia de Quito: Villalba
Citation Villalba F., Jorge. El Licenciado Miguel de Ibarra, Sexto Presidente de La Audiencia de Quito, Su Gobernador y Capitán General, 1550-1608. Quito: Centro de Publicaciones, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, 1991.
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.
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.
Luces y Sombas del Liberalism
Citation Albornoz Peralta, Osvaldo. Ecuador: Luces y sombas del liberalism. Quito: El Duende, 1989.
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 peasant unions after the 1952 revolution by the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario. Her book is a concise collection of essays written in collaboration with Bolivian peasant… Read More Oppressed But Not Defeated: Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
The Agrarian Question and the Peasant Movement in Colombia: Léon Zamosc
Sociologist Léon Zamosc’s The Agrarian Question and the Peasant Movement in Colombia, looks at the development of agrarian capitalism and peasant land struggles in Colombia between 1967 and 1981. In ten concise chapters, Zamosc analyzes differences in agrarian strategies, changes in peasant-state relations, and what he calls the politics and ideology of the “peasant challenge,”… Read More The Agrarian Question and the Peasant Movement in Colombia: Léon Zamosc
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 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
Historia del Movimiento Obrero Ecuatoriano: Osvaldo Albornoz
Citation Albornoz Peralta, Osvaldo. Historia del movimiento obrero ecuatoriano: Breve síntesis. Quito: Editorial Letra Nueva, 1983.
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.
The Process of Political Domination in Ecuador: Agustín Cueva
Citation Cueva, Agustín. The Process of Political Domination in Ecuador. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1982.
The Lingering Death of Indian Tribute in Ecuador: Mark Van Aken
Citation Van Aken, Mark. “The Lingering Death of Indian Tribute in Ecuador.” The Hispanic American Historical Review 61, no. 3 (1981): 429–59.
Peasant Cooperatives and Political Change in Peru: Cynthia McClintock
Cynthia McClintock’s monograph, Peasant Cooperatives and Political Change in Peru, looks at the social and political effect of the agrarian reforms of the Velasco administration between 1968 to 1975. Focusing closely on the 1969 hacienda expropriations and subsequent implementation of self-managing agrarian cooperatives, McClintock uses a series of social surveys, carried out by Cornell University… Read More Peasant Cooperatives and Political Change in Peru: Cynthia McClintock
Quantifying the Nineteenth Century: Michael Hamerly
Citation Hamerly, Michael T. “Quantifying the Nineteenth Century: The Ministry Reports and Gazettes of Ecuador as Quantitative Sources.” Latin American Research Review 13, no. 2 (1978): 138–56.
Repartos y Rebeliones: Jürgen Golte
Jürgen Golte’s Repartos y Rebeliones, published in German in 1977 and translated into Spanish by Carlos Degregori in 1980, analyzes the implementation, evolution, and resistance to the repartimiento de efectos, put in place by Spain’s Bourbon reformers in the eighteenth century.[1] Golte sought to revise earlier studies that overlooked the role of the repartos, a… Read More Repartos y Rebeliones: Jürgen Golte
Conquest and Agrarian Change: Robert Keith
Robert Keith’s 1976 Conquest and Agrarian Change: The Emergence of the Hacienda System on the Peruvian Coast, explored the rise of Spanish plantations in seven valleys along Peru’s southern coast in the second half of the sixteenth century. Keith emphasized the legacy of pre-Colombian societies in the development of the hacienda, arguing that in addition… Read More Conquest and Agrarian Change: Robert Keith
Andean Rural Proletarians: Thomas Greaves
Anthropologist Thomas Greaves’ 1972 article, “The Andean Rural Proletarians” examined the critical role played by labor syndicates in the organization of regional peasant movements in the Ecuadorian highlands during the twentieth century. Greaves applies Sidney Mintz’s concept of the “rural proletarian” to the Andes to narrow what was then thought to constitute the so-called peasant… Read More Andean Rural Proletarians: Thomas Greaves
The Rise of Peasant Unions on Traditional Ecuadorian Haciendas: Muriel Crespi
Anthropologist Muriel Crespi’s 1971 article, “Changing Power Relations: The Rise of Peasant Unions on Traditional Ecuadorian Haciendas,” explored the disruptive consequences of agrarian capitalism on rural authority structures in the mid-twentieth century. Focusing on the expropriation of Church-owned haciendas and the rise of Marxist-inspired peasant unions in the Ecuadorian highlands near Cayambe, Crespi argued that… Read More The Rise of Peasant Unions on Traditional Ecuadorian Haciendas: Muriel Crespi
Spanish Peru, 1532-1560: James Lockhart
James Lockhart’s Spanish Peru (1968) looks at the first three decades of Spanish conquest in the colonial Andes. One of the first Latin American historians to mine notarial records as a window into social life in the sixteenth century, Lockhart provides a survey of Peru’s major socioeconomic and demographic categories via a series of life… Read More Spanish Peru, 1532-1560: James Lockhart
Don Hernando de Santillán y La Fundación de La Real Audiencia de Quito: José Vargas
Citation Vargas, José María. Don Hernando de Santillán y La Fundación de La Real Audiencia de Quito. Quito: Editorial Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1963.
La Real Audiencia de Quito y su territorio: Carlos Larrea
Citation Larrea, Carlos Manuel. La Real Audiencia de Quito y su territorio. Quito: Editorial Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1963.
Introducción a los acontecimientos del 10 de agosto de 1809: Isaac Barrera
CitationBarrera, Isaac J. Ensayo de interpretación histórica : introducción a los acontecimientos del 10 de agosto de 1809. Quito: Editorial Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1959.
Historia moderna del reyno de Quito y crónica de la provincia de la Compañía de Jesús del mismo reyno: Velasco and Reyes
Citation Velasco, Juan de, and Raúl Reyes y Reyes. Historia moderna del reyno de Quito y crónica de la provincia de la Compañía de Jesús del mismo reyno. Quito: Imprenta de la Caja del Seguro, 1941.
