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Genre/Form: | Church history |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Irene Silverblatt |
ISBN: | 0822334178 0822334062 9780822334170 9780822334064 |
OCLC Number: | 1056017758 |
Description: | xv, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | About the Series ixAcknowledgments xiPrologue 3Three Accused Heretics 29 Inquisition as Bureaucracy 55Mysteries of State 77Globalization and Guinea Pigs 99States and Stains 117New Christians and New World Fears 141The Inca's Witches 161Becoming Indian 187Afterword 217Appendix: Notes on Bias and Sources 227Notes 235Bibliography 283Index 293 |
Series Title: | Latin America otherwise. |
Responsibility: | Irene Silverblatt. |
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"Modern Inquisitions is a superb inquiry into the obscured American origins of modernity. With exceptional lucidity and judicious indignation, Irene Silverblatt persuasively argues that the Spanish Inquisition in colonial Peru was a modern institution that intimately intertwined race-thinking and bureaucratic rationality. By illuminating the subterranean currents shaping the modern world, this outstanding book renders the violent civilizing hierarchies they have carved at once more comprehensible and more intolerable."-Fernando Coronil, author of The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela "Modern Inquisitions is an extraordinary work of research and interpretation. Based on painstaking archival research in the Lima Inquisition records, it makes crucial contributions to the debates about race, state-formation, and colonialism."-Barbara Weinstein, author of For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in Sao Paulo, 1920-1964 Read more...


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