Kenneth J. Andrien

Transatlantic encounters : Europeans and Andeans in the sixteenth century

Emphasizing the reciprocal influences of European and Andean peoples, the contributors to this volume examine the formation of a colonial society in sixteenth-century South America. Together these eight outstanding essays by specialists in anthropology, history, art history, and literary studies are a model interdisciplinary forum in Andean and colonial studies. The authors explore the Old World background to the cultural encounter; the key political, social, and economic forces at work in shaping the Andean landscape; the transformation and hybridization of Inca symbolism; and the ways in which Andeans and Europeans came to interpret the emerging colonial society.

The Sale of Juros and the Politics of Reform in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1608–1695

During the first half of the seventeenth century the Spanish crown framed a series of administrative reforms for the Indies aimed at raising additional revenue for the overextended royal treasury. Military defeats in Flanders, Italy, and Germany between 1625 and 1650 undermined Spanish power and forced authorities in Madrid to look for new sources of revenue in their American empire. The deteriorating economic, political, and military position of Spain did not produce an attitude of ‘benign neglect’ towards the empire, but induced an intense level of government activity in Madrid to force greater financial contributions from the Indies to the beleaguered metropolis. The most successful of die new tax levies imposed in the viceroyalty of Peru was the sale of juros or state-supported annuities.

The Politics of Reform in Spain's Atlantic Empire during the Late Bourbon Period: The Visita of José García de León y Pizarro in Quito

Victor Bulmer-Thomas, John H. Coatsworth and Roberto Cortes Conde (eds.), The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America, vol. 1: The Colonial Era and the Short Nineteenth Century; vol. 2: The Long Twentieth Century (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. viii+607 and viii+755, £170.00 for both volumes, hb. Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 793-795 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X09990599, Published online by Cambridge University Press 03 Dec 2009

The Bourbon Reforms, Independence, and the Spread of Quechua and Aymara

The extant historical evidence provides little indication that policies enacted by the colonial state had any dramatic effect on the use of Quechua and Aymara in the Andes during the eighteenth century and the independence era. By the eighteenth century, colonial officials had become more tolerant of the two major vernacular language families, Quechua and Aymara, particularly with the spread of popular piety among the Andean peoples. Even the political and religious turmoil surrounding the move to replace the religious orders with secular priests in Amerindian parishes (beginning in 1749), the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767, attempts by the Crown to require that Andeans learn Castilian in the four years following the Great Andean Rebellions from 1781 to 1783, the rise of Liberal reform with the Constitution of 1812, and the rise of national states that limited indigenous participation in politics, apparently had no profound impact on language spread and use in the Andes. Instead, historians most often point to the process of ethnogenesis taking place over a long period in the Andes, which can be traced in the documentary evidence from the eighteenth century.

The Invention of Colonial Andean Worlds

Invaders as Ancestors: On the Intercultural Making and Unmaking of Spanish Colonialism in the Andes. By Peter Gose. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. Pp. xviii + 380.

Children of the Father King: Youth, Authority, and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima (review)

80.00 cloth,

Silver, Trade, and War: Spain and America in the Making of Early Modern Europe (review)

35.00 paper. Domination without Dominance: Inca-Spanish Encounters in Early Colonial Peru. By Gonzalo Lamana. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii + 287.

The kingdom of Quito, 1690-1830 : the state and regional development

79.95 cloth,

Andean Worlds: Indigenous History, Culture, and Consciousness under Spanish Rule, 1532-1825

22.95 paper. Incas ilustrados: Reconstrucciones imperiales en la segunda mitad del siglo xviii. By Fernanda Macchi. Madrid: Iberoamericana; Frankfurt: Vervuert, 2009. Pp. 286. Inventing Lima: Baroque Modernity in Perus South Sea Metropolis. By Alejandra B. Osorio. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Pp. xvii + 254.

Cities and Society in Colonial Latin America

84.95 cloth.