1st Edition
Transnational Perspectives on the Conquest and Colonization of Latin America
Introduction
Jenny Mander
Speculations
1. Putting Tierra del Fuego on the Map
Bas Gooijer
2. Sir Balthazar Gerbier’s Utopian Dreams of the New World, 1649–1660
Jane Campbell
3. The Impossible Dialogue between Plato and Epicurus: José Manuel Peramás's Commentarius on the Paraguayan Missions
Fabrizio Melai
Constructions
4. Translating Franciscan Poverty in Colonial Latin America
Julia McClure
5. Italian Scientists in South America: Argentina as Constructed by Paolo Mantegazza and Pellegrino Strobel
Diego Stefanelli
6. Imagined Indigeneity in Alfred Döblin’s Novel Amazonas (1937–1938)
David Midgley
7. Challenging Colonial Discourses: the Spanish Imperial Borderland in Chile from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century
Beatriz Marín-Aguilera, with Leonor Adán Alfaro and Simón Urbina Araya
Records of Appropriation
8. Native Artists and the Defense of Territory in Sixteenth-Century New Spain
Ana Pulido-Rull
9. A Thing of the Past: Representation, Material Culture, and Indigeneity in Post-Conquest Meso- and Andean South America
Stefanie Gänger
10. The Nationalization of the Ecuadorian Amazon Region in the Early Twentieth Century: The Salesian Outpost
Chiara Pagnotta
Adaptations and Conflations
11. Aristotelian Politics Among the Aztecs: A Nahuatl Adaptation of a Treatise by Denys the Carthusian
David Tavárez
12. The Poetics of Emulation in a Latin American Context: Towards a New Theoretical Framework
João Cezar de Castro Rocha
13. The Greco-Roman as an Arena for Conflict: Classical Reception, Popular Poetry and Power in Northeast Brazil
Connie Bloomfield
14. The ‘Indians of Europe’ in Sierra Morena: Reputation, Emulation and Colonization in the Spanish Enlightenment
Eduardo Jones Corredera
Buried Histories
15. Form and Decorations on Qeros and Unku: The Impact of Inka and Spanish Conquest on Material Culture in Settler Colonial States
Christine D. Beaule
16. Black Space Production in Andean Societies: How Africans and Their Descendants Shaped Lima’s San Lázaro Neighborhood
Leo J. Garofalo
17. Fashioning the ‘Other:’ The Foreign as Diplomatic Currency in the Sixteenth-Century Caribbean and in Europe
Joanna Ostapkowicz
18. Imagining the Hispanic Past: The De-Mexicanization of California, 1880–1930
Carrie Gibson
Legacies of Coloniality
19. The Lure of the Andes: Peruvian Mountain Guides ‘Made in Switzerland’
Angela Sanders
20. The Conquest in Cultural Memory: Peruvian Migrants in Europe
Leslie Nancy Hernández Nova
21. Our Grandmother's Looms: Q’eqchi’ Weavers, Museum Textiles and the Repatriation of Lost Knowledge
Callie Vandewiele
22. Afro-Mexico: Images of the Indeterminate
Lucy Foster
Biography
Jenny Mander is an intellectual historian at the University of Cambridge, specializing in eighteenth-century France, the rise of the novel, colonial thought and early globalization. She has a special interest in the abbé Raynal, and is an editor of the new critical edition of Raynal’s Histoire des deux Indes.
David Midgley is Professor emeritus of German Literature and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Writing Weimar: Critical Realism in German Literature, 1918–1933 (Oxford 2000), and his research is currently focused especially on the major works of Alfred Döblin.
Christine D. Beaule is Associate Professor of Latin American and Iberian Studies, University of Hawai¿i at Manoa. Her research combines anthropological archaeology with the study of historical texts and is focused on the comparative impact of colonialism on material culture and indigenous sociopolitical organization in South America and the Philippines.
