Oxford Handbook of Borderlands of the Iberian World

This Handbook integrates innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to the production of Iberian imperial borderlands in the Americas, from southwestern U.S. to Patagonia, and their connections to trade and migratory circuits extending to Asia and Africa. In this volume borderlands comprise political boundaries, spaces of ethnic and cultural exchange, and ecological transitions.

List of contents

• Introduction, Danna A. Levin Rojo and Cynthia Radding


• Part I: Indigenous Borderlands, Cultural Landscapes, and Spheres of Power in the Americas


• Chapter 1: Patterns of Food Security in the Prehispanic Americas, Amy Turner Bushnell


• Chapter 2: Crafting Landscapes in the Iberian Borderlands of the Americas, Cynthia Radding


• Chapter 3: Fluctuating Frontiers in the Borderlands of Mesoamerica, Fernando Berrojalbiz and Marie-Areti Hers


• Chapter 4: Population and Epidemics North of Zacatecas, Chantal Cramaussel


• Chapter 5: "Indian friends and allies" in the Spanish Imperial Borderlands of North America, Danna A. Levin Rojo


• Chapter 6: The Indian Garrison Colonies of New Spain and Central America, Sean F. McEnroe


• Chapter 7: Inter-Ethnic War in Sonora: Indigenous Captains General and Cultural Change, 1740-1832, José Marcos Medina Bustos and Ignacio Almada Bay


• Chapter 8: Native Informants and the Limits of Portuguese Dominion in Late-Colonial Brazil, Hal Langfur


• Part II: Transcontinental Borderlands in Ibero-America


• Internal Trade Networks: Commercial and Migratory Labor Circuits


• Chapter 9: Indigenous Trade in Caribbean Central America, 1700s-1800s, Alejandra Boza and Juan Carlos Solórzano


• Chapter 10: Connections and Circulation in the Southern Andes from Colony to Republic, Viviana Conti


• Chapter 11: The Royal Road of the Interior in New Spain: Indigenous Commerce and Political Action, Tatiana Seijas


• Shifting Identities in Relation to Gender, Demography, Ethnicity, and Mestizaje


• Chapter 12: Indigenous autonomy and the Blurring of Spanish Sovereignty in the Calchaquí Valley, Sixteenth to Seventeenth Century. Christophe Giudicelli


• Chapter 13: Labyrinths of Mestizaje: Understanding Cultural Persistence and Transformation in Nueva Vizcaya, Susan Deeds


• Chapter 14: Borderlands in the Silver Mines of New Spain, 1540-1660, Dana Velasco Murillo


• Chapter 15: Indigenous Histories in Colonial Brazil: Between Ethnocide and Ethnogenesis, John M. Monteiro


• Chapter 16: Colonization, Mediation, and Mestizaje in the Borderlands of Nineteenth-Century Minas Gerais, Brazil, Izabel Missagia de Mattos


• The Production of Knowledge: Science and Cartography, Art, Religion, and Music


• Chapter 17: Borderlands of knowledge in the Estado da Índia (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries), Ines G. %Zupanov


• Chapter 18: Tierra Incognita: Cartography and Projects of Territorial Expansion in Sonora and Arizona, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, José Refugio de la Torre Curiel


• Chapter 19: The Virgin of El Zape and Jesuit Missions in Nueva Vizcaya, Clara Bargellini


• Chapter 20: Franciscan Mysticism on the Northern Frontier of New Spain, Cecilia Sheridan Prieto


• Chapter 21: Musical Cultures of the Ibero-American Borderlands, Kristin Dutcher Mann and Drew Edward Davies


• Chapter 22: Frontier Missions in South America: Impositions, Adaptations, and Appropriations, Guillermo Wilde


• Shifting Territories and Enduring Peoples in the Iberian-American Borderlands


• Chapter 23: Borderlands of Bondage, Andrés Reséndez


• Chapter 24: Riverine Borderlands and Multicultural Contacts in Central Brazil, 1775-1835, Mary Karasch


• Chapter 25: Conflict, Alliance, Mobility, and Place in the Evolution of Identity in Portuguese Amazonia, Barbara A. Sommer


• Chapter 26: Autonomous Indian Nations and Peacemaking in Colonial Brazil, Heather F. Roller


• Part III: Imperial Borderlands and Trans-Oceanic Exchanges: Some Perspectives


• Chapter 27: Trans-Imperial Interaction and the Rio de la Plata as an Atlantic Borderland, Fabrício Prado


• Chapter 28: The Construction of a Frontier Space: Interethnic Relations in Northern Bolivia, Pilar García Jordán and Anna Guiteras Mombiola


• Chapter 29: The Spanish Empire's Southernmost Frontiers: From Arauco to the Strait of Magellan, Elizabeth Montanez Sanabria and María Ximena Urbina


• Chapter 30: Shaping an Inter-imperial Exchange Zone: Smugglers, Runaway Slaves, and Itinerant Priests in the Southern Caribbean, Linda M. Rupert


• Chapter 31: The Pacific Borderlands of the Spanish Empire, Catherine Tracy Goode


• Chapter 32: Converting the Pacific: Jesuit Networks between New Spain and Asia, Brandon Bayne


• Chapter 33: Indigenous Diaspora, Bondage, and Freedom in Colonial Cuba, Jason M. Yaremko


• Chapter 34: Impact on the Spanish Empire of the Russian Incursion into the North Pacific, 1741-1821, Martha Ortega

About the author

Danna Levin Rojo is professor of history at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco and the author of Return to Aztlan: Indians, Spaniards, and the Invention of Nuevo México. She is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores de México and of the editorial board of the Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas (UNAM, México). She chaired the Postgraduate Program on Historiography at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and is secretary of the board of directors of the Americas Research Network.

Cynthia Radding is Gussenhoven Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is the author of Landscapes of Power and Identity. Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic and co-editor of Borderlands in World History. Radding is president of the board of the Americas Research Network and has served on the editorial boards of Hispanic American Historical Review,American Historical Review, and The Americas and on the advisory council of the Inter-American Foundation.

Summary

This Handbook integrates innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to the production of Iberian imperial borderlands in the Americas, from southwestern U.S. to Patagonia, and their connections to trade and migratory circuits extending to Asia and Africa. In this volume borderlands comprise political boundaries, spaces of ethnic and cultural exchange, and ecological transitions.

Additional text

Whatever the framing, readers both new to and entrenched in the field will find this handbook to be a rich collection of works that will provide a conceptual and contextual foundation for years to come.

Product details

• Authors: Danna A. (Professor of History Levin Rojo, Danna A. Levin (EDT)/ Radding Rojo
• Assisted by: Danna A. Levin Rojo (Editor), Cynthia Radding (Editor), Radding Cynthia (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780199341771
• ISBN: 978-0-19-934177-1
• No. of pages: 928
• Series: Oxford Handbooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, General & world history, Social and cultural history, General and world history, History of the Americas, The Americas, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General