Contested Territory : Mapping Peru in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
- History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds Series .
- History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds Series .
Cover -- Half title -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Landscape and the Spanish Conquest of Peru -- 2. Beyond Textuality -- 3. Landscapes of Resistance? -- 4. The Mobile Landscapes of Huarochiri -- 5. Negotiating Amazonia -- 6. Contested Frontiers and the Amazon/Andes Divide -- Conclusion: Mapping Peru in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Contested Territory explores the ways in which Peru's early colonial landscapes were experienced and portrayed, especially by the Spanish conquerors but also by their conquered subjects.
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Spaniards-Peru-History-16th century. Spaniards-Peru-History-17th century. Cultural landscapes-Peru. Human geography-Peru. Peru-History-Conquest, 1522-1548. Peru-History-1548-1820. Peru-Discovery and exploration-Spanish.