ABOUT THIS BOOK

This second 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

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Steve J. Stern is professor of history and director of Latin American and Iberian Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His books include Resistance, Rebellion, and Consciousness in the Andean Peasant World, 18th to 20th Centuries and Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America, both of which are published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

REVIEWS

“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

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Figures and Maps

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction to the Second Edition: The Challenge of Conquest in Wider Perspective

Prologue: Paradigms of Conquest: History, Historiography, and Politics

1:
Pre-Columbian Landscapes

2:
Rise and Demise of the Post-Incaic Alliances

3:
A Historical Watershed

4:
The Political Economy of Colonialism

5:
The Indians and Spanish Justice

6:
The Political Economy of Dependence

7:
The Tragedy of Success

8:
Huamanga's Colonial Heritage

Appendix A:
Debts, Wages, and Work in Castrovirreyna, 1597–1603

Appendix B:
Guide to Colonial Land Tenure Documents for Huamanga

Appendix C:
Official Counts of Huamanga Tributary Populations, 1570–1635

Appendix D:
Asientos of Indians in the City of Huamanga, 1570–1640

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

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