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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821884303321

Autore

Scott Heidi V. <1976->

Titolo

Contested territory [[electronic resource] ] : mapping Peru in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / / Heidi V. Scott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2009

ISBN

0-268-09270-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xiii, 256 p. : maps

Collana

History, languages, and cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese worlds

Disciplina

985/.02

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Landscape and the Spanish conquest of Peru -- Beyond textuality : landscape, embodiment, and native agency -- Landscapes of resistance? : Peru's relaciones geográficas -- The mobile landscapes of Huarochirí -- Negotiating Amazonia : the accounts of Juan Recio de León -- Contested frontiers and the Amazon/Andes divide -- Conclusion : mapping Peru in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Sommario/riassunto

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.