Making the Colonial Empire. A Review of Jeremy Ravi Mumford's <em>Vertical Empire: The General Resettlement of Indians in the Colonial Andes</em> (Durham, NC: Duke U P, 2012)

Authors

  • Rachel Sarah O'Toole University of California—Irvine

Keywords:

colonial history, Andes region, resettlement, Indians

Abstract

Review of Jeremy Ravi Mumford's Vertical Empire: The General Resettlement of Indians in the Colonial Andes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012.

Author Biography

Rachel Sarah O'Toole, University of California—Irvine

Rachel Sarah O'Toole is currently an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru (2012) from the University of Pittsburgh Press, and along with Sherwin Bryant and Ben Vinson III, co-editor of Africans to Spanish America: Expanding the Diaspora in The New Black Studies Series, from the University of Illinois Press (2012). Her focus is colonial Peru and she has published on the construction of whiteness, masculinity within slavery, African Diaspora identities, indigenous politics, and gender influences on racial constructions in Secuencia: Revista de historia y ciencias sociales (2011), Social Text (2007), The Americas (2006), and The Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History (2006) as well as in edited volumes in the U.S. and Peru.

Published

2013-10-15

How to Cite

O’Toole, R. S. (2013). Making the Colonial Empire. A Review of Jeremy Ravi Mumford’s <em>Vertical Empire: The General Resettlement of Indians in the Colonial Andes</em> (Durham, NC: Duke U P, 2012). A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 11(1), 416–423. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/787

Issue

Section

Reviews: History and the Andean Region