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Informationen zum Autor Charles F. Walker is Professor of History and Director of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780–1840, also published by Duke University Press. Klappentext ""Shaky Colonialism "is a superior work of scholarship. Charles F. Walker uses a dramatic incident and its aftermath to present a very intelligent analysis of baroque colonialism and its halting transformation into the Enlightenment-inspired absolutism of the Bourbons. He balances human drama and color to pull the reader into a very serious analysis of colonial society."--Peter Guardino, author of "The Time of Liberty: Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750-1850" Zusammenfassung A social history of the earthquake-tsunami that struck Lima in October 1746! looking at how people in and beyond Lima understood and reacted to the natural disaster. Inhaltsverzeichnis Tables ix Acknowledgments xi 1. Earthquakes, Tsunamies, Absolutism, and Lima 1 2. Balls of Fire: Premonitions and the Destruction of Lima 21 3. The City of Kings: Before and After 52 4. Stabilizing the Unstable and Ordering the Disorderly 74 5. Contending Notions of Lima: Obstacles to Urban Reform in the Aftermath 90 6. Licentious Friars, Wandering Nuns, and Tangled Censos: A Shakeup of the Church 106 7. Controlling Women's Bodies and Placating God's Wrath: Moral Reform 131 8. "All These Indians and Black People Bear Us No Good Will": The Lima and Huarochirí Rebellions of 1750 156 Epilogue: Aftershocks and Echoes 186 Notes 193 Bibliography 223 Index 251
