Peru's
Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest
Huamanga
to 1640
Second Edition
Steve J. Stern
"A masterful and superbly written history of the Indians
of the Ayachucho region during the first century after the conquest,
Stern's work greatly advances research into Andean society."
—Jeffrey
L. Klaiber, S. J., The Americas
To Steve J. Stern, the 1492 arrival of Columbus in America "symbolizes a historical reconfiguration of world magnitude." The quincentennial of that event challenged Stern to reexamine the consequences and meanings of the European conquest of the Americas. This
expanded edition of Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge
of Spanish Conquest includes Stern's 1992 reflections on
the ten years of historical interpretation that have passed since
the book's original publication—setting his analysis of
Huamanga in a larger perspective.
"This book is a monument to both scholarship and comprehension,
comparable in its treatment of the indigenous peoples after the
conquest only to that of Charles Gibson for the Aztecs, and perhaps
the best volume read by this reviewer in several years."
—Frederick
P. Bowser, American Historical Review
"Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest is clearly indispensable reading for Andeanists and highly recommended
to ethnohistorians generally. In technical respects it is a job
done right, and conceptually it stands out as a handsome example
of anthropology and history woven into one tight fabric of inquiry."
—Frank
Salomon, Ethnohistory
Steve J. Stern is professor in the Department of History
at the University of WisconsinMadison. His books include Resistance, Rebellion, and Consciousness in the
Andean Peasant World, 18th to 20th Centuries; and
as coauthor, Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor,
and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America, both
published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
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October 1994
LC: 93-031326
F
352 pp. 6 x 9
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