José Carlos de la Puente Luna

Andean Cosmopolitans

Seeking Justice and Reward at the Spanish Royal Court

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Produktbeschreibung

Shifting the focus of Atlantic World studies to the Iberian peninsula, this volume reveals how Andean travelers to the Spanish royal court helped to construct, maintain, and transform transoceanic networks of power.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of University of Texas
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781477314869
• ISBN-10: 1477314865
• Artikelnr.: 48065187

Autorenporträt

José Carlos de la Puente Luna is an associate professor of history at Texas State University. He is the author of Los curacas hechiceros de Jauja: Batallas mágicas y legales en el Perú colonial and coeditor of El quipu colonial: estudios y materiales.

Inhaltsangabe

* Illustrations
* Acknowledgments
* 1. Don Melchor Is Dead
* 2. Khipus, Community, and the Pursuit of Justice in Sixteenth-Century
Peru
* 3. The Expanding Web: Indigenous Claimants Join the Early Modern
Atlantic
* 4. Who Speaks for the Indians? Lima, Castile, and the Rise of the
Nación Índica
* 5. At His Majesty's Expense: Imperial Quandaries and Indigenous
Visitors at Court
* 6. What's in a Name? Impostors, Forgeries, and the Limits of
Transatlantic Advocacy
* 7. The Great Inca Don Luis I
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index