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Urban Mountain Beings: History, Indigeneity, and Geographies of Time in Quito (Review)

Fine-Dare, Kathleen S. Urban Mountain Beings: History, Indigeneity, and Geographies of Time in Quito, Ecuador. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2020.… Read More Urban Mountain Beings: History, Indigeneity, and Geographies of Time in Quito (Review)

February 12, 2020June 3, 2025 N. H. GillLeave a comment

Quito: Historia Del Cabildo y La Ciudad (Review)

Citation Gomezjurado Zevallos, Javier. Quito: Historia Del Cabildo y La Ciudad. Primera edición. Quito, Ecuador: Javier Gomezjurado Zevallos, 2015.

March 25, 2015June 3, 2025 N. H. GillLeave a comment

Quito, Ciudad de Maestros: Arquitectos, Edificios y Urbanismo: Webster

Citation Webster, Susan Verdi. Quito, Ciudad de Maestros: Arquitectos, Edificios y Urbanismo En El Largo Siglo XVII. Quito: Abya Yala, 2012.

October 25, 2012October 23, 2020 N. H. GillLeave a comment

Ecuador del Siglo XIX: Estado Nacional, Ejército, Iglesia y Municipio: Enrique Ayala

Citation Ayala Mora, Enrique. Ecuador Del Siglo XIX: Estado Nacional, Ejército, Iglesia y Municipio. Quito: Corporación Editora Nacional, 2011.

May 11, 2011October 23, 2020 N. H. GillLeave a comment

The Market for Meat in Colonial Cuenca: A Seventeenth-Century Urban Faunal Assemblage from the Southern Highlands of Ecuador: Jamieson

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.

December 1, 2008October 23, 2020 N. H. GillLeave a comment

The Many Meanings of Poverty: Colonialism, Social Compacts, and Assistance in Eighteenth-Century Ecuador: Milton

Citation Milton, Cynthia E. The Many Meanings of Poverty: Colonialism, Social Compacts, and Assistance in Eighteenth-Century Ecuador. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2007.

June 1, 2008October 23, 2020 N. H. GillLeave a comment

Class Formation in Latin America: One Family’s Enduring Journey between Country and City: Striffler

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.

December 11, 2004February 5, 2021 N. H. GillLeave a comment

Indigenous Communists and Urban Intellectuals in Cayambe, Ecuador (1926-1944): Becker

Citation Becker, Marc. “Indigenous Communists and Urban Intellectuals in Cayambe, Ecuador (1926-1944).” International Review of Social History, Supplement 12, no. 49 (2004): 41-64.

June 1, 2004February 5, 2021 N. H. GillLeave a comment

Quito 1599: City and Colony in Transition: Lane

Citation Lane, Kris E. Quito 1599: City and Colony in Transition. 1st ed. Diálogos. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002.

June 19, 2002October 23, 2020 N. H. GillLeave a comment

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