Transnational Perspectives on the Conquest and Colonization of Latin America (Hardcover)

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: Jose Manuel Peramas'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 Doblin’s Novel Amazonas (1937-38) David Midgley 7. Challenging Colonial Discourses: the Spanish Imperial Borderland in Chile from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century Beatriz Marin-Aguilera, with Leonor Adan and Simon Urbina 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 Ganger 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 Tavarez 12. The Poetics of Emulation in a Latin American Context: Towards a New Theoretical Framework Joao 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 Lazaro 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 Hernandez 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