Jane E Mangan: 2 books
Trading Roles
Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosí
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2005
Located in the heart of the Andes, Potosà was arguably the most important urban center in the Western Hemisphere during the colonial era. It was internationally famous for its abundant silver mines and regionally infamous for its labor draft. Set in this context of opulence and oppression associated...
Transatlantic Obligations
Creating the Bonds of Family in Conquest-Era Peru and Spain
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The sixteenth-century changes wrought by expansion of Spanish empire into Peru shaped the ways of being a family in colonial Peru. Even as migration, race mixture, and transculturation took place, family members fulfilled obligations to one another by adapting custom to a changing world. Family began...