Memorias de los Virreyes que han gobernado el Perù
Author: Don Melchor Navarra y Rocaful
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2022-02-06
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 3752487119
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Santa Bárbara’s Legacy
Author: Nicholas A. Robins
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-04-24
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9004343792
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Santa Bárbara’s Legacy: An Environmental History of Huancavelica, Peru, Nicholas A. Robins presents the first comprehensive environmental history of a mercury producing region in Latin America. Tracing the origins, rise and decline of the regional population and economy from pre-history to the present, Robins explores how people’s multifaceted, intimate and often toxic relationship with their environment has resulted in Huancavelica being among the most mercury-contaminated urban areas on earth. The narrative highlights issues of environmental justice and the toxic burdens that contemporary residents confront, especially many of those who live in adobe homes and are exposed to mercury, as well as lead and arsenic, on a daily basis. The work incorporates archival and printed primary sources as well as scientific research led by the author.
Government and Society in Colonial Peru
Author: John R. Fisher
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-11-19
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1474241182
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study of the structure of government and society in late colonial Peru is based upon detailed examination of the operation of the viceroyalty of the system of administration by intendants, partly in response to the demands for better provincial government expressed by the Túpac Amaru rebellion. Fisher examines relations between the intendants and other groups of administrators, and brings out the revolutionary implications of their attempts to stimulate municipal life and government and assesses Peru's increasing political and administrative instability upon the application of the viceroyalty of the Constitution of Cádiz.
Mercury, Mining, and Empire
Author: Nicholas A. Robins
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2011-07-25
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0253005388
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On the basis of an examination of the colonial mercury and silver production processes and related labor systems, Mercury, Mining, and Empire explores the effects of mercury pollution in colonial Huancavelica, Peru, and Potosí, in present-day Bolivia. The book presents a multifaceted and interwoven tale of what colonial exploitation of indigenous peoples and resources left in its wake. It is a socio-ecological history that explores the toxic interrelationships between mercury and silver production, urban environments, and the people who lived and worked in them. Nicholas A. Robins tells the story of how native peoples in the region were conscripted into the noxious ranks of foot soldiers of proto-globalism, and how their fate, and that of their communities, was—and still is—chained to it.
Bourbon Peru, 1750-1824
Author: John Robert Fisher
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 0853239088
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Private Passions and Public Sins
Author: María Emma Mannarelli
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780826322791
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Peruvian scholar focuses on the cultural significance of illicit sexual practices in seventeenth-century Lima.
Landscapes of Inequity
Author: Nicholas A. Robins
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2020-07-01
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 1496221397
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The natural wealth of the Amazon and Andes has long attracted fortune seekers, from explorers, farmers, and gold panners to multimillion-dollar mining, oil and gas, and timber operations. Modern demands for commodities have given rise to new development schemes, including hydroelectric dams, open cast mines, and industrial agricultural operations. The history of human habitation in this region is intimately tied to its rich biodiversity, and the Amazon basin is home to scores of indigenous groups, many of whom have populations so small that their cultural and physical survival is endangered. Landscapes of Inequity explores the debate over rights to and use of resources and addresses fundamental questions that inform the debate in the western Amazon basin, from the Andes Mountains to the tropical lowlands. Beginning with an examination of the divergent conceptual interpretations of environmental justice, the volume explores the issue from two interlocking perspectives: of indigenous peoples and of economic development in a global economy. The volume concludes by examining the efficacy of laws and policies concerning the environment in the region, the viability and range of judicial recourse, and future directions in the field of environmental justice.
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Salt of the Mountain
Author: Stefano Varese
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780806135120
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For four centuries, the Camp Ashaninkas of the Peruvian Amazon have fought for their identity and independence in the face of Spanish colonialism and Peruvian national expansionism. Stefan Varese wrote about the Campa Ashaninkas in the mid-1960s, after three seasons of field research among them and three years of archival research. He titled his book La Sal de Los Cerros, after the invaded Mountain of Salt that had been the center of Campa Ashaninka trade and power for millennia. Salt of the Mountain makes Varese's classic work of anthropology available in English for the first time, updated with a new preface and introduction by the author. Varese conducted his research with an explicit commitment to letting the Campa Ashaninkas speak for themselves. Using their myths and cosmological interpretations as source material, Varese presents new readings of both colonial Spanish and modern Peruvian documents relating to the tribe. He chronicles the relentless success of European geographic annexation and the continuing failure of European cultural assimilation. Living among the Campa Ashaninkas, Varese found that their worldview rejects the modern notion that assimilation is inevitable, and he developed a deep respect for their fiercely independent spirit. For this reason, he calls his work an "approximation" rather than a description or history.
They Eat from Their Labor
Author: Ann Zulawski
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Published: 2010-11-23
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0822975432
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A study of the growth of the indigenous labor force in upper Peru (now Bolivia) during colonial times. Ann Zulawski provides case studies in mining and agriculture, and places her data within a larger historical context than analyzes Iberian and Andean concepts of gender, property, and labor. She concludes that although mercantilism made a critical impact in the New World, the colonial economic system in the Andes was not yet capitalist. Attitudes of both indigenous peoples and Spanish colonizers hindered the process of turning work into a commodity. In addition, the mobilization of labor power both reinforced and undermined each society's ideas about the economic and social roles of men and women.
