Kris Lane
Biographic Data
| ID | 3645156 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kris Lane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kris |
| FAMILY NAME | Lane |
| SIGNATURE | LANE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Enemies of All: The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age of Piracy, by Richard Blakemore
I n M emoriam: Noble David Cook (1941–2024)
The Pirates’ Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship, by Rebecca Simon
Integrating Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Principles Into Qualitative Research Design
Equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) can serve as an epistemological framework for conducting qualitative research. As it receives unprecedented attention, detailing how EDI is being incorporated into research may be particularly important, so that it is recognized as credible and may be reproduced. While the principles of EDI are well-defined, the exact methodological processes for applying them to qualitative research design and execution rem…
In Memoriam: Ana María Presta (1953–2024)
Re-Primarization All Over Again? Extraction and Resistance in Twenty-First-Century Latin America
This essay reviews the following works:Community of Peace: Performing Geographies of Ecological Dignity in Colombia. By Christopher Courtheyn. Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh University Press, 2022. Pp. xx + 284. $55.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780822947141.Latin American Extractivism: Dependency, Resource Nationalism, and Resistance in Broad Perspective. Edited by Steve Ellner. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. Pp. ix + 292. $41.00 paperback, $94.00 h…
Raiders and Natives: Cross-cultural Relations in the Age of Buccaneers
The history of piracy has matured considerably in recent decades, spurred perhaps counterintuitively by global pop culture. Surplus fiction seems to drive hunger for true pirate stories, both in Asia and in the West. One may also credit the wild frontier of cyberspace, where good and evil battle at the speed of light. But piracy, like cybercrime, is only as good as its infrastructure, its hosts and enablers. This is the premise of Arne Bialuschew…
El control de la corrupción en la Monarquía Hispánica. La Casa de la Contratación (1642–1660), written by Alfonso Jesús Heredia López
Jeannette Graulau. The Underground Wealth of Nations: On the Capitalist Origins of Silver Mining, A.D. 1150–1450
Scholars have long puzzled over the origins of capitalism. Some trace it to tapping (or trapping) land’s natural fecundity, others to harnessing labor, others to the rise of the firm, often in relation to long-distance shipping. Some suspect religious or other cultural drivers. Others see a productive tension between violent competition and innovation. A few see capitalist sparks in medieval Asia or in parts of the Islamic world, but for most, ca…
Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune , by Keith Thomson & Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia , by Dav…
These two books examine buccaneers not in their Caribbean nests, but rather in the seas and oceans into which they fled by around 1680 to escape prosecution.In Born to Be Hanged, novelist Keith Thomson distills published pirate accounts of South Sea or Spanish Pacific raiding circa 1680 into a rollicking narrative, and the late anthropologist David Graeber blends eighteenth-century narratives with modern ethnography to propose a pirate utopia in …
Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots: Free Trade in the Age of Revolution
This is not so much a book about pirates or smugglers, or even patriots—although all appear—as it is about national divergence. Intrigued by the different paths taken by the early United States and its largest southern neighbor, Brazil, Tyson Reeder sets out to show what these colonies turned nations had in common and how they differed in the decades on either side of the year 1800. Political and commercial leaders of the fledgling US, Reeder sho…
T imothy A lborn . All That Glittered: Britain’s Most Precious Metal from Adam Smith to the Gold Rush
Gold is for grown-ups, or so the British told themselves. Beginning in around 1700, Britain abandoned silver to embrace gold. Others followed, but later. So how to navigate gold’s moral hazards and still get rich? Deftly blending cultural and economic history, Timothy Alborn dives into the fraught implications of Britain’s choice. All That Glittered is a mining project in its own right. Online prospecting opened unexpected shafts, yet rather than…
Potosí global: Viajando con sus primeras imágenes (1550-1650)
In four brief chapters, renowned historian of the colonial Andes Rossana Barragán takes us around the world in a dozen pictures, explaining along the way how the silver mountain known as the Cerro Rico de Potosí became a global icon.Chapter 1 begins with the iconic 1553 image of the Cerro Rico published in Seville by Pedro de Cieza de León and its afterlife in the work of Agustín de Zárate (1555) and then in the various versions of the Tarih-i Hi…
Hispanism and the Historiography of Colonial Latin America: North American Trends
El hispanismo o la fascinación por todo lo “español” tienen una larga tradición en los Estados Unidos. El fenómeno ha tenido tanto manifestaciones populares como académicas, y por lo tanto debe tratarse de una manera amplia cuando se tiene en cuenta la historiografía de la América Latina colonial producida por académicos anglófonos, tanto dentro como fuera de los EE. UU. Los apologistas, críticos y todos los demás han tenido que lidiar con el leg…
Beyond index and auto de fe: New directions in the study of the Holy Office of the Inquisition
The Spanish Inquisition has drawn both popular and scholarly attention since before its abolition in the early nineteenth century. While it has remained, for some, a medieval relic or stock element
In Memoriam: Judith Ewell (1943–2019)
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The Ghost of Seventeenth-Century Potosí: An Autopsy
In his 1611 Treasury of the Castilian or Spanish Language , Sebastián de Covarrubias began his definition of the word duende as follows: “It is one of the spirits of those who fell with Lucifer, of which some fell to the depths, others remained in the airy region, and some [landed] upon the surface of the Earth, as it is commonly held. These tend to be found inside houses and among mountains and in caves, frightening with their occasional apparit…
American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492–1700, by Molly A. Warsh
Latin America in Colonial Times
Few milestones in human history are as momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. The fully revised textbook Latin America in Colonial Times presents that story in an engaging but informative new package, revealing how a new civilization and region - Latin America - emerged from that encounter. The authors give equal attention to the Spanish and Portuguese conquerors and settlers, to the Afric…
Artistas y artesanos en las sociedades preindustriales de Hispanoamérica, siglos XVI-XVIII
Presentación del editor-director y de los editores invitados para el número 35
Marta Herrera Ángel. El conquistador conquistado. Awás, Cuayquer y Sindaguas en el Pacífico colombiano, siglos XVI-XVIII
This deeply researched, intensely thoughtful, and finely illustrated book fills a major void. Whereas the colonial Chocó has received much scholarly attention over the years, little is known of the southwestern corner of Colombia the Spanish called the Province of Las Barbacoas. Even this name is a bit confusing, since for its polyglot indigenous inhabitants, portions of Esmeraldas (Ecuador), some parts of the Patía River drainage, sections of we…
Epitaph of a Small Winner: My First 50 Years in Academe. An Interview with Judith Ewell
Judith Ewell has been a major figure in modern Latin American history, both as a research scholar and as a teacher. Just before receiving her PhD at the University of New Mexico in 1972, Ewell began teaching at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, from which she retired in 2004. Ewell's books include The Indictment of a Dictator: The Extradition and Trial of Marcos Pérez Jiménez (1981); Venezuela: A Century of Change (1984); a…
A Response to the Commentary by Karen Olsen Bruhns, William E. Brooks, and Deborah Truhan on “Ecuadorian Cinnabar and the Prehispanic Trade in Vermilion Pigment: Viable Hypothesis or Red Herring?”
Our LAQ paper concluded that cinnabar pigment found by archaeologists in northern Peru was produced at Huancavelica in south-central Peru. In contrast, Bruhns and her colleagues suggest the mines near Azogues in southern Ecuador were an important cinnabar source for prehispanic Ecuador and Peru. In their commentary, they introduce new historic and geologic information to support their view, but a critical analysis demonstrates that it does not un…
The Matter of Empire: Metaphysics and Mining in Colonial Peru
What is the matter with empire? Or rather, what is it made of? This question drives Bentancor’s philosophical exploration of scholastic thought and applied science in the colonial Andes, focused on the silver mines of Potosí. In five dense chapters, Bentancor spans a long century to link the writings of Francisco de Vitoria, Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda (and his nemesis, Bartolomé de Las Casas), José de Acosta, a small group of writers that he labels …
Ecuadorian Cinnabar and the Prehispanic Trade in Vermilion Pigment: Viable Hypothesis or Red Herring
Cinnabar ore is the source of a bright red pigment (mercury [II] sulfide, HGS), a substance that was highly valued in the Central Andes during prehispanic times. It is traditionally believed to come from Huancavelica in south-central Peru, although some scholars have argued that a prehispanic cinnabar source existed at Azogues near Cuenca in southern Ecuador. It has also been suggested that the cinnabar recovered at archaeological sites in northe…
Ecuadorian Cinnabar and the Prehispanic Trade in Vermilion Pigment: Viable Hypothesis or Red Herring
Cinnabar ore is the source of a bright red pigment (mercury [II] sulfide, HGS), a substance that was highly valued in the Central Andes during prehispanic times. It is traditionally believed to come from Huancavelica in south-central Peru, although some scholars have argued that a prehispanic cinnabar source existed at Azogues near Cuenca in southern Ecuador. It has also been suggested that the cinnabar recovered at archaeological sites in northe…
Captivity and Redemption: Aspects of Slave Life in Early Colonial Quito and Popayán
In mid-July 1594 a notary recorded the last wishes of an elite woman on her deathbed in Quito. Ysabel de Baeza was a native of the old Kingdom of Granada, a four-time widow, owner of some houses in Seville and a modest estancia in Ambato, a few days' ride south of Quito. She also claimed five slaves: Magdalena and her four children, Luisa, Felipe, Juan, and Antón. Doña Ysabel's real estate was to go mostly to her children and grandchildren in Qui…
The Indian Militia and Description of the Indies
Sometimes referred to as the first published manual of guerrilla warfare, Bernardo de Vargas Machuca’s Indian Militia and Description of the Indies is actually the first known manual of counterinsurgency, or anti-guerrilla warfare. Published in Madrid in 1599 by a Spanish-born soldier of fortune with long experience in the Americas, the book is a training manual for conquistadors. The Aztec and Inca Empires had long since fallen by 1599, but Varg…
Pillaging the Empire: Piracy in the Americas, 1500-1750
Unlucky strike: Gold and labor in Zaruma, Ecuador, 1699–1820
This article seeks to shed light on the peculiar history of Zaruma, most durable gold‐mining camp, focusing specifically on labor. First exploited in the 1550s, Zaruma was at various times worked b
Pillaging the Empire: Piracy in the Americas, 1500-1750
This introductory survey to maritime predation in the Americas from the age of Columbus to the reign of the Spanish king Philip V includes piracy, privateering (state-sponsored sea-robbery), and genuine warfare carried out by professional navies
The transition from Encomienda to slavery in seventeenth‐century Barbacoas (Colombia)
(2000). The transition from Encomienda to slavery in seventeenth‐century Barbacoas (Colombia) Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 73-95
Gone Platinum: Contraband and Chemistry in Eighteenth-Century Colombia
This article examines the strange career of platinum, an element first identified in colonial Colombia. Around the turn of the eighteenth century, a high-grade platinum alloy, nicknamed ‘platina,’
Taming the Master: Brujeria, Slavery, and the Encomienda in Barbacoas at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century
Studies of colonial witchcraft (brujeria) in Spanish South America have generally focused on seventeenth-century extirpation campaigns in the central Andes. The A. offers a comparative case of indigenous magic from the less-studied and more biodiverse Pacific coast of Colombia, a gold mining region conquered and settled by Europeans only after I620. By I700 indigenous Barbacoans combined their knowledge of Spanish encomienda (tributary) law with …
Artistas y artesanos en las sociedades preindustriales de Hispanoamérica, siglos XVI-XVIII
Presentación del editor-director y de los editores invitados para el número 35
Mercury, Mining, and Empire: The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes
Book Review| May 01 2013 Mercury, Mining, and Empire: The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes Mercury, Mining, and Empire: The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes. Robins, Nicholas A.. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011 320 pp., $40.00 (cloth) Kris Lane Kris Lane Tulane University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2013) 10 (2): 131–132. https://doi.…
Los bucaneros y la defensa de la costa del Pacífico a fines del siglo XVII en Quito: El caso de Barbacoas
Desde julio de 1680, y por más de una década, la población de la provincia minera de las Barbacoas, localizada en el húmedo litoral del Pacífico del territorio de la actual Colombia, afrontó una serie de encuentros desagradables con bucaneros, tanto ingleses como franceses. Esta era la primera vez, desde comienzos de 1640, que intrusos extranjeros amenazaban al Pacífico español y a Las Barbacoas, una sub-provincia de la Audiencia, de Quito, colon…
Taming the Master: Brujeria, Slavery, and the Encomienda in Barbacoas at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century
Studies of colonial witchcraft (brujeria) in Spanish South America have generally focused on seventeenth-century extirpation campaigns in the central Andes. The A. offers a comparative case of indigenous magic from the less-studied and more biodiverse Pacific coast of Colombia, a gold mining region conquered and settled by Europeans only after I620. By I700 indigenous Barbacoans combined their knowledge of Spanish encomienda (tributary) law with …
Pillaging the Empire: Piracy in the Americas, 1500-1750
Patterns of Pillage: A Geography of Caribbean-Based Piracy in Spanish America, 1536-1718
Pillaging the Empire: Piracy in the Americas, 1500-1750
The Blood-Red Arab Flag: An Investigation into Qasimi Piracy, 1797-1820
Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface A Brief Chronology of Events Dramatis Personae Part One: Introductory Prologue 1 Outline 2 The Setting 3 The Players Part Two: Of the Evidence 4 The Question of Piracy a) Tableux 5 Incidents at Sea, in the Years 1797-1819, Which are Attested by Virtue of Admissions or Possession 6 The Most Important Cases of Alleged Piracy by the Qawasim Against British Vessels b) Perspectives 7 Local Opinion 8 Cruiser Comma…
The transition from Encomienda to slavery in seventeenth‐century Barbacoas (Colombia)
(2000). The transition from Encomienda to slavery in seventeenth‐century Barbacoas (Colombia) Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 73-95
Captivity and Redemption: Aspects of Slave Life in Early Colonial Quito and Popayán
In mid-July 1594 a notary recorded the last wishes of an elite woman on her deathbed in Quito. Ysabel de Baeza was a native of the old Kingdom of Granada, a four-time widow, owner of some houses in Seville and a modest estancia in Ambato, a few days' ride south of Quito. She also claimed five slaves: Magdalena and her four children, Luisa, Felipe, Juan, and Antón. Doña Ysabel's real estate was to go mostly to her children and grandchildren in Qui…
The sweet trade revived
First paragraph]Women Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger. ULRIKE KLAUSMANN, MARION MEINZERIN & GABRIEL KUHN. New York: Black Rose Books, 1997. x + 280 pp. (Paper US$ 23.99)Pirates! Brigands, Buccaneers, and Privateers in Fact, Fiction, and Legend. JAN ROGOZINSKI. New York: Da Capo Press, 1996. xvi + 398 pp. (Paper US$ 19.95)Sir Francis Drake: The Queens Pirate. HARRY KELSEY. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998, xviii + 566 pp. (Cloth …
The World of Túpac Amaru: Conflict, Community, and Identity in Colonial Peru
Book Review| October 01 2000 The World of Túpac Amaru: Conflict, Community, and Identity in Colonial Peru By Ward Stavig. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xxxiv + 348 pp., introduction, maps, illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. $25.00 paper.) Kris Lane Kris Lane Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 809–811. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-809 Cite Icon Cite Share I…
Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco, Peru
Book Review| July 01 2001 Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco, Peru By Carolyn Dean. (Durham, : Duke University Press, 1999. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-48-3-544 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Kris Lane; Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco, Peru. Ethnohistory 1 July 2001; 48 (3): 544–546. doi: https://doi.org/10…
The Discovery and Conquest of Peru
Punishing the sea wolf: Corsairs and cannibals in the early modern Caribbean
Looks at how Western law was interpreted and applied to perceived cannibals and corsairs in the Spanish Caribbean in the 16th and 17th c., by Spanish jurists in the period, and at the development of the cannibal and corsair image in Spanish culture. Author outlines the convergence of terms suggesting a growing semantic linkage between certain indigenous peoples, specially the famed "Carib cannibals", and foreign, mostly Western European, corsairs…
Andean Worlds: Indigenous History, Culture, and Consciousness under Spanish Rule, 1532-1825; Indian Society in the Valley of Lima, Peru, 1532-1824
Book Review| October 01 2003 Andean Worlds: Indigenous History, Culture, and Consciousness under Spanish Rule, 1532-1825; Indian Society in the Valley of Lima, Peru, 1532-1824 By Kenneth J. Andrien. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. xiii + 290 pp., preface, illustrations, bibliography, index. $21.95 paper.)By Paul Charney. (Lanham, md: University Press of America, 2001. $59.00 cloth. $42.00 paper.) Kris Lane Kris Lane Search for…
Unlucky strike: Gold and labor in Zaruma, Ecuador, 1699–1820
This article seeks to shed light on the peculiar history of Zaruma, most durable gold‐mining camp, focusing specifically on labor. First exploited in the 1550s, Zaruma was at various times worked b
Making Ecuadorian histories: Four centuries of defining power - By O. Hugo Benavides
The Indian Militia and Description of the Indies
Sometimes referred to as the first published manual of guerrilla warfare, Bernardo de Vargas Machuca’s Indian Militia and Description of the Indies is actually the first known manual of counterinsurgency, or anti-guerrilla warfare. Published in Madrid in 1599 by a Spanish-born soldier of fortune with long experience in the Americas, the book is a training manual for conquistadors. The Aztec and Inca Empires had long since fallen by 1599, but Varg…
Pirates: Flibuste et piraterie dans la Caraïbe et les mers du sud, 1522 - 1725
Thankfully, pirates do not go out of style, and adding some stylish (if somewhat less so than Johnny Depp) French ones to the roster of high seas infamy can only prolong their amazing run. Loaded with mini-biographies and breathless exclamation marks, Jean-Pierre Moreau’s Pirates more than does the job of filling in the who’s who blanks for France. Though primarily an examination of seventeenth-century francophone Caribbean privateers turned bucc…
Colonial Incas, A-z
Review Article| January 01 2008 “Colonial Incas, A–z” Kris Lane Kris Lane Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (1): 153–162. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2007-049 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kris Lane; “Colonial Incas, A–z”. Ethnohistory 1 January 2008; 55 (1): 153–162. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2007-049 Download cita…
Memorias robadas: Reflexiones sobre archivos, historia y poder
In these concluding remarks, Kris Lane brings together the issues raised by the preceeding articles, linking them to historiographical and political issues, and highlighting the importance of rethinking the connections between archives, historical research, and interpretations about both the past and the present
Colour of Paradise: Emeralds in the Age of the Gunpowder Empires
Emeralds of the Shahs
This chapter discusses the wealth and tremendous power of Asia's gunpowder empires in their heyday, as suggested by the adventures of Jacques de Coutre. Catholic missionaries, most of them Iberians and Italians, had long sought the ears of Asian sultans and shahs, particularly those of Mughal India and Safavid Persia. Embassies sent by the newly chartered trading companies of Protestant Europe followed closely on their heels. In the years around …
Conquistadors
This chapter discusses how Europe gave birth to its own gunpowder empires. As in Asia, gunpowder weapons played a key role in state consolidation and expansion beginning about 1450. Partly for this reason, historians use the term “early modern” to mark off the explosive era to c.1750, when new and profound shifts in military technology and strategy began taking shape. De-emphasizing “medieval” archers and crossbowmen, catapults, rams and knightly…
Empires and Inquisitors
This chapter describes how gem trading was often carried out in secret during the age of gunpowder empires. The full dimensions of the dealings involving gems were only partially revealed by criminal investigations or chance discoveries. Trade monopolies and high taxes encouraged subterfuge, but there were other, more natural, incentives. Gemstones such as emeralds, diamonds, and pearls—compact, durable, and extremely valuable—were everywhere ide…
Emerald City
This chapter describes the imminent emerald rush in October 1564, as the blood of conquest dried. The councilmen reported that “in this time there have been discovered many mines of emeralds of both the common and fine sort, and others so perfect as to be quite oriental.” Muzo attacks plagued European emerald seekers periodically for another three decades, but within about a year of the councilmen's letter to the king, the richest claims on the C…
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