The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America

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The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America

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The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America is an anthology of life stories of largely ordinary individuals struggling to forge a life during the unstable colonial period in Latin America. These mini-biographies show the tensions that emerged when the political, social, religious, and economic ideals of the Spanish and Portugese colonial regimes and the Roman Catholic Church conflicted with the realities of daily life in the Americas. The essays examine subthemes of gender roles; race and ethnicity; conflicts over religious orthodoxy; and crime, violence, and rebellion, while illustrating the overall theme of social order and disorder in a colonial setting. Professor Andrien has carefully selected pieces to comprise a volume that is well balanced in terms of geography, gender, and ethnicity. Written by established scholars, the essays are designed to be readable and interesting to students. Ideal for courses on Colonial Latin American history and the Latin American history survey, The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America will interest as well as inform students.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 I. New World Beginnings and Efforts to Create a Colonial Social Order, 1492-1610
Chapter 3 Gaspar Antonio Chi: Bridging the Conquest of the Yucatán
Chapter 4 Don Melchior Caruarayco: A Kuraka of Cajamarca in Sixteenth-Century Peru
Chapter 5 Doña Isabel Sisa: A Sixteenth-Century Indian Woman Resisting Gender Inequalities
Chapter 6 Domingos Fernandes Nobre: "Tomacauna," a Go-Between in Sixteenth-Century Brazil
Chapter 7 The Mysterious Catalina: Indian or Spaniard?
Part 8 II. The Mature Colonial Order, 1610-1740
Chapter 9 Ursula de Jesús: Seventeenth-Century Afro-Peruvian Mystic
Chapter 10 Zumbi of Palmares
Chapter 11 Diego de Ocaña: Holy Wanderer
Chapter 12 Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala: Native Writer and Litigant in Early Colonial Peru
Chapter 13 AhChan and the Conquest of the Itza Maya Kingdom
Part 14 III. Reform, Resistance, and Rebellion, 1740-1825
Chapter 15 Pedro de Ayarza: The Purchase of Whiteness
Chapter 16 Victorina Loza: Quiteña Merchant in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 17 José Antonio da Silva: Marriage and Concubinage in Colonial Brazil
Chapter 18 Eugenio Sinanyuca: Militant, Nonrevolutionary Kuraka, and Community Defender
Chapter 19 Juan Barbarín: The 1795 French Conspiracy in Buenos Aires
Chapter 20 Miguel García: Black Soldier in the Wars of Independence
Chapter 21 Angela Batallas: A Fight for Freedom in Guayaquil
Chapter 22 Index

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Jan 08 2026
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 3rd
Extent 352
ISBN 9798881803186
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Series The Human Tradition around the World series
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Kenneth J. Andrien

Kenneth J. Andrien is professor of history at Ohio…

Anthology Editor

Cameron D. Jones

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