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The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America

Second Edition

Edited by Kenneth J. Andrien

The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America is an anthology of stories of largely ordinary individuals struggling to forge a life during the unstable colonial period in Latin America. These mini-biographies vividly show the tensions that emerged when the political, social, religious, and economic ideals of the Spanish and Portuguese colonial regimes and the Roman Catholic Church conflicted with the realities of daily living in the Americas.

Now fully updated with new and revised essays, the book is carefully balanced among countries and ethnicities. Within an overall theme of social order and disorder in a colonial setting, the stories bring to life issues of gender; race and ethnicity; conflicts over religious orthodoxy; and crime, violence, and rebellion. Written by leading scholars, the essays are specifically designed to be readable and interesting. Ideal for the Latin American history survey and for courses on colonial Latin American history, this fresh and human text will engage as well as inform students.

Contributions by: Rolena Adorno, Kenneth J. Andrien, Christiana Borchart de Moreno, Joan Bristol, Noble David Cook, Marcela Echeverri, Lyman L. Johnson, Mary Karasch, Alida C. Metcalf, Kenneth Mills, Muriel S. Nazzari, Ana María Presta, Susan E. Ramírez, Matthew Restall, Zeb Tortorici, Camilla Townsend, Ann Twinam, and Nancy E. van Deusen.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 354 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼

978-1-4422-1298-5 • Hardback • May 2013 • $150.00 • (£115.00)

978-1-4422-1299-2 • Paperback • May 2013 • $51.00 • (£39.00)

978-1-4422-1300-5 • eBook • May 2013 • $48.50 • (£37.00)

Series: The Human Tradition around the World series

Subjects: History / Latin America / General

Courses: History; Latin America; Colonial

The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America

Second Edition

Hardback

Paperback

eBook

Summary

The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America is an anthology of stories of largely ordinary individuals struggling to forge a life during the unstable colonial period in Latin America. These mini-biographies vividly show the tensions that emerged when the political, social, religious, and economic ideals of the Spanish and Portuguese colonial regimes and the Roman Catholic Church conflicted with the realities of daily living in the Americas.

Now fully updated with new and revised essays, the book is carefully balanced among countries and ethnicities. Within an overall theme of social order and disorder in a colonial setting, the stories bring to life issues of gender; race and ethnicity; conflicts over religious orthodoxy; and crime, violence, and rebellion. Written by leading scholars, the essays are specifically designed to be readable and interesting. Ideal for the Latin American history survey and for courses on colonial Latin American history, this fresh and human text will engage as well as inform students.

Contributions by: Rolena Adorno, Kenneth J. Andrien, Christiana Borchart de Moreno, Joan Bristol, Noble David Cook, Marcela Echeverri, Lyman L. Johnson, Mary Karasch, Alida C. Metcalf, Kenneth Mills, Muriel S. Nazzari, Ana María Presta, Susan E. Ramírez, Matthew Restall, Zeb Tortorici, Camilla Townsend, Ann Twinam, and Nancy E. van Deusen.

Details

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 354 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼

978-1-4422-1298-5 • Hardback • May 2013 • $150.00 • (£115.00)

978-1-4422-1299-2 • Paperback • May 2013 • $51.00 • (£39.00)

978-1-4422-1300-5 • eBook • May 2013 • $48.50 • (£37.00)

Series: The Human Tradition around the World series

Subjects: History / Latin America / General

Courses: History; Latin America; Colonial

Author

Kenneth J. Andrien holds the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Chair in History at Southern Methodist University.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Kenneth J. Andrien
Part I: New World Beginnings and Efforts to Create a Colonial Social Order, 1492–1610
Chapter 1: Gaspar Antonio Chi: Bridging the Conquest of Yucatán
Matthew Restall
Chapter 2: Don Melchior Caruarayco: A Kuraka of Cajamarca in Sixteenth-Century Peru
Susan E. Ramírez
Chapter 3: Doña Isabel Sisa: A Sixteenth-Century Indian Woman Resisting Gender Inequalities
Ana María Presta
Chapter 4: Domingos Fernandes Nobre: “Tomacauna,” a Go-Between in Sixteenth-Century Brazil
Alida C. Metcalf
Chapter 5: The Mysterious Catalina: Indian or Spaniard?
Noble David Cook
Part II: The Mature Colonial Order, 1610–1740
Chapter 6: Ursula de Jesús: A Seventeenth-Century Afro-Peruvian Mystic
Nancy E. van Deusen
Chapter 7: Agustina Ruiz: Sexuality and Religiosity in Colonial Mexico
Zeb Tortorici
Chapter 8: Zumbi of Palmares: Challenging the Portuguese Colonial Order
Mary Karasch
Chapter 9: Diego de Ocaña: Holy Wanderer
Kenneth Mills
Chapter 10: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala: Native Writer and Litigant in Early Colonial Peru
Rolena Adorno
Chapter 11: Ana de Vega: Seventeenth-Century Afro-Mexican Healer
Joan Bristol
Part III: Reform, Resistance, and Rebellion, 1740–1825
Chapter 12: Pedro de Ayarza: The Purchase of Whiteness
Ann Twinam
Chapter 13: Victorina Loza: Quiteña Merchant in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
Christiana Borchart de Moreno
Chapter 14: José Antonio da Silva: Marriage and Concubinage in Colonial Brazil
Muriel S. Nazzari
Chapter 15: Juan Barbarín: The 1795 French Conspiracy in Buenos Aires
Lyman L. Johnson
Chapter 16: Agustín Agualongo and the Royalist Cause in the Wars of Independence
Marcela Echeverri
Chapter 17: Angela Batallas: A Fight for Freedom in Guayaquil
Camilla Townsend

Reviews

The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America . . . will enrich the understanding of Latin American culture of a student at just about any level. (Previous Edition Praise)
— The Latin Americanist

Recommended for classroom use. This textbook gets away from the dominant presentation of topics and, instead, focuses on biographical profiles of people and their times. (Previous Edition Praise)
— Colonial Latin American Historical Review

Kenneth Andrien proves himself a skillful editor who knows what works in the classroom. This is an excellent supplementary reading. (Previous Edition Praise)
— William Taylor, University of California, Berkeley

This wonderful book brings to life the complex history of colonial Latin America in ways that traditional textbooks cannot. Students will better identify with everyday life in the colonies through the rich accounts of the experiences of both the ordinary and extraordinary individuals presented in this work. It will undoubtedly enhance lectures and spark lively discussions. A welcome addition! (Previous Edition Praise)
— Jeremy Baskes, Ohio Wesleyan University

Aimed at student readers, these biographical vignettes bring colonial Latin American history to life. Each makes a superb starting point for analyzing and discussing how colonialism affected the lives of real people. (Previous Edition Praise)
— Kendall W. Brown, Brigham Young University

The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America is full of fascinating stories. It is a celebration of historians’ ability to research the lives of the common folk whose portraits never reach the walls of museums. These vivid narratives about real people make the great themes of colonial Latin American history more immediate and accessible to students. (Previous Edition Praise)
— Peter Guardino, Indiana University

This is a wonderful book, rich with the personal histories of everyday colonial people masterfully set within the context of time and place. These engrossing portraits invite the reader to examine how men and women—indigenous people, Europeans and those of African descent, slave and free, merchants, officers, soldiers, writers, chieftains (kurakas) and mystics—challenged their assigned roles within the colonial social hierarchy. (Previous Edition Praise)
— Susan M. Socolow, Emory University

Features

Features new chapters on Colonial Mexico and the Caribbean region

New themes include sexuality, witchcraft, and the Wars of Independence

Added timeline places the lives covered within the context of key dates in colonial Latin American history

Ideal for courses on Colonial Latin American History and for the Latin American Survey

Human-centered stories bring history to life for students

The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America

Second Edition

Edited by Kenneth J. Andrien

The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America

Second Edition

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