This Incurable Evil
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Andes
Araucania
archaeology
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battle of maule
Bio-Bio River
captivity narratives
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Catholic Church
Chile
Chilean history
colonial bureaucracy
cordilleras
Curalaba Uprising
encomienda system
enslaved Africans
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ethnogenesis
ethnohistory
evangelization
frontier economy
gold mining
Governor Lazo de la Vega
haciendas
Incas
Indigenous
Indigenous studies
Inkas
Jesuit missionaries
King Philip II
Latin America
Lima
Lima earthquake
Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva
Mapuche
Mapuche Uprising of 1655
Mapuzugun language
New Spain
parlamentos
Parleys
Peruvian diaspora
Puren River
Quechua
real audiencia
repatriation
Santiago
seventeenth century
silver
sixteenth century
slave trade
South American
Spanish Americas
Spanish chroniclers
Spanish empire
Spanish history
Spanish military
The Army of Arauco
viceroy
war
What is chueca?
What was the Parley of Quillin about?
Who are the Mapuche?
Who was Francisco de Meneses?
Who was Michimalonco?
Product details
- ISBN 9780817361105
- Weight: 318g
- Dimensions: 151 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 23 May 2023
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Documents how initial Mapuche-Spanish alliances were built and how they were destroyed by increasingly powerful slave-trading elites operating like organized crime families
The history of Spanish presence in the Americas is usually viewed as a one-sided conquest. In Mapuche Resistance to Spanish Enslavement, 1598–1687, Eugene C. Berger provides a major corrective in the case of Chile. For example, in the south, indigenous populations were persistent in their resistance against Spanish settlement. By the end of the sixteenth century, Spanish aspirations to conquer the entire Pacific Coast were dashed at least twice by armed resistance from the Mapuche peoples. By 1600, the Mapuche had killed two Spanish governors and occupied more than a dozen Spanish towns. Chile’s colonial future was quite uncertain.
As Berger documents, for much of the seventeenth century it seemed that there could be peace along the Spanish-Mapuche frontier. Through trade, intermarriage, and even mutual distrust of Dutch and English pirates, the Mapuche and the Spanish began to construct a colonial entente. However, this growing alliance was obliterated by the “incurable evil,” an ever-expanding enslavement of Mapuches, and one which prompted a new generation of Mapuche resistance. This trade saw Mapuche rivals, neutrals, and even friends placed in irons and forced to board ships in Valdivia and ConcepciÓn or to march northward along the Andes. The Mapuche labored in the gold mines of La Serena, in urban workshops in Lima, in the silver mines of PotosÍ, or on the thousands of haciendas in between and would never return to their homes. With this tragic betrayal, Chile was left a more corrupt, violent, and polarized place, which would cause deep wounds for centuries.
The history of Spanish presence in the Americas is usually viewed as a one-sided conquest. In Mapuche Resistance to Spanish Enslavement, 1598–1687, Eugene C. Berger provides a major corrective in the case of Chile. For example, in the south, indigenous populations were persistent in their resistance against Spanish settlement. By the end of the sixteenth century, Spanish aspirations to conquer the entire Pacific Coast were dashed at least twice by armed resistance from the Mapuche peoples. By 1600, the Mapuche had killed two Spanish governors and occupied more than a dozen Spanish towns. Chile’s colonial future was quite uncertain.
As Berger documents, for much of the seventeenth century it seemed that there could be peace along the Spanish-Mapuche frontier. Through trade, intermarriage, and even mutual distrust of Dutch and English pirates, the Mapuche and the Spanish began to construct a colonial entente. However, this growing alliance was obliterated by the “incurable evil,” an ever-expanding enslavement of Mapuches, and one which prompted a new generation of Mapuche resistance. This trade saw Mapuche rivals, neutrals, and even friends placed in irons and forced to board ships in Valdivia and ConcepciÓn or to march northward along the Andes. The Mapuche labored in the gold mines of La Serena, in urban workshops in Lima, in the silver mines of PotosÍ, or on the thousands of haciendas in between and would never return to their homes. With this tragic betrayal, Chile was left a more corrupt, violent, and polarized place, which would cause deep wounds for centuries.
