Walker Shaky Colonialism

The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8892-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 278 Seiten

Reihe: a John Hope Franklin Center Book

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walker, Charles F.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.