Andean Cosmopolitans

Seeking Justice and Reward at the Spanish Royal Court

Bibliographic Data

ID19903892
AuthorsJosé Carlos De La Puente Luna (0000-0003-3507-8994, corresponding author)
Year2018
Publication date2018-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byAndean Cosmopolitans: Seeking Justice and Reward at the Spanish Royal Court, Frank Salomon, 2019
VenueAndean Cosmopolitans (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Texas Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7560/314432
OpenAlexW4230446033
Open LibraryOL34910896M
ISBN9781477314876
LanguageEN
Citations received45

After the Spanish victories over the Inca claimed Tawantinsuyu for Charles V in the 1530s, native Andeans undertook a series of perilous trips from Peru to the royal court in Spain. Ranging from an indigenous commoner entrusted with delivering birds of prey for courtly entertainment to an Inca prince who spent his days amid titles, pensions, and other royal favors, these sojourners were both exceptional and paradigmatic. Together, they shared a conviction that the sovereign's absolute authority would guarantee that justice would be done and service would receive its due reward. As they negotiated their claims with imperial officials, Amerindian peoples helped forge the connections that sustained the expanding Habsburg realm's imaginary and gave the modern global age its defining character. Andean Cosmopolitans recovers these travelers' dramatic experiences, while simultaneously highlighting their profound influences on the making and remaking of the colonial world. While Spain's American possessions became Spanish in many ways, the Andean travelers (in their cosmopolitan lives and journeys) also helped to shape Spain in the image and likeness of Peru. De la Puente brings remarkable insights to a narrative showing how previously unknown peoples and ideas created new power structures and institutions, as well as novel ways of being urban, Indian, elite, and subject. As indigenous people articulated and defended their own views regarding the legal and political character of the "Republic of the Indians," they became state-builders of a special kind, cocreating the colonial order

Geography · Latin American Cultural Politics · 16th century · 17th century · 985/.02 · Ethnic identity · F3444 .p795 2018 · Government relations · History · Indians of South America · Peru

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