New Kingdom of Granada
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A01=Santiago Munoz-Arbelaez
Andean economies
Andes
anticolonialism
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Cacicazgo
Cacique
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Colonial Colombia
colonial governance
don Diego de la Torre
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global Spanish monarchy
Indigenous agriculture
Indigenous politics
Indigenous sovereignty
Indigenous textiles
legal cartography
Mesoamerica
Muiscas
Muisica peoples of northern Andes
New Granada
pastoralism
Philip II
Pijaos
Republic of Colombia
Spanish empire
Viceroyalty of New Granada
Product details
- ISBN 9781478031840
- Weight: 431g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 May 2025
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The New Kingdom of Granada tells the history of the making and unmaking of empire in the diverse and decentralized Indigenous landscapes of the Northern Andes. Santiago MuÑoz-ArbelÁez examines the intricate and disputed processes that reshaped the peoples and landscapes of present-day Colombia into a kingdom within the global Spanish monarchy. Drawing on correspondence, visitation reports, judicial records, maps, textiles, and accounting and legal documents created by Europeans and Indigenous peoples, MuÑoz-ArbelÁez outlines the painstaking century-long effort between 1530 and 1630 to consolidate the kingdom. A diverse group of people that included Indigenous interpreters, scribes, and intellectuals spearheaded these projects, which eventually expanded colonial control outward from its base in the highland Andean plateaus down to the lowland river valleys. Meanwhile, autonomous Indigenous political projects constantly threatened imperial rule, as rebels often encircled the kingdom and seized the corridors that linked it to Spain. By foregrounding the kingdom’s difficult establishment and tenuous hold on power, MuÑoz-ArbelÁez challenges traditional understandings of imperial politics and the myriad ways Indigenous peoples participated in, disputed, and negotiated the establishment of colonial rule.
Santiago MuÑoz-ArbelÁez is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.
