Contested territory
Subtitle: mapping Peru in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
By: Heidi V. Scott.
Series: History, languages, and cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese worlds
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780268041311
Subjects: Spaniards -- Peru -- History -- 16th century; Spaniards -- Peru -- History -- 17th century; Cultural landscapes -- Peru; Human geography -- Peru; Peru -- History -- Conquest, 1522-1548; Peru -- History -- 1548-1820; Peru -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Landscape and the Spanish conquest of Peru; title: Beyond textuality : landscape, embodiment, and native agency; title: Landscapes of resistance? : Peru's relaciones geográficas; title: The mobile landscapes of Huarochirí; title: Negotiating Amazonia : the accounts of Juan Recio de León; title: Contested frontiers and the Amazon/Andes divide; title: Conclusion : mapping Peru in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.