Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America

Kenneth J. Andrien is professor of history at Ohio State University, Columbus.

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

Kenneth Andrien proves himself a skillful editor who knows what works in the classroom. This is an excellent supplementary reading.