Shadows of Empire: The Indian Nobility of Cusco, 1750-1825The Indian nobility of the Andes--largely descended from the Inca monarchs and other pre-conquest lords--occupied a crucial economic and political position in late colonial Andean society, a position widely accepted as legitimate until the Túpac Amaru rebellion. Shadows of Empire traces the history of this late colonial elite and examines the pre-conquest and colonial foundations of their privilege and authority. It brings to light the organization and the ideology of the Indian nobility in the bishopric of Cusco in the decades before the rebellion, and uses this nobility as a lens through which to study the internal organization and tension of late colonial Indian communities. |
Contents
Introduction I | 1 |
Spanish Conquest and the Habsburg Reforms | 15 |
The Long Seventeenth Century | 45 |
Cacical Families and Provincial Nobilities | 75 |
Communal Economies and Indian Fortunes | 114 |
The Politics of the Cacicazgo | 148 |
From Reform to Rebellion | 183 |
Other editions - View all
Shadows of Empire: The Indian Nobility of Cusco, 1750-1825 David T. Garrett No preview available - 2005 |
Shadows of Empire: The Indian Nobility of Cusco, 1750-1825 David T. Garrett No preview available - 2012 |
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