City Indians in Spain's American Empire

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This volume, the first of its genre in English, brings together the pioneering work of scholars of urban Indians of colonial Latin America. An important, but understudied segment of colonial society, urban Indians composed a majority of the population of Spanish America's most important cities. The geographic range, chronological scope, and thematic content of urban native studies is addressed by examining such topics as the role of natives in settling frontier regions, interethnic relations, notaries and chroniclers, and the continuation of indigenous governance. In spanning the entirety of the colonial period, the persistence and the creation of urban Indian identities and their contributions to colonial society is brought to the fore. Scholarly contributions include chapters by Susan Schroeder, Whither Tenochtitlan? Chimalpahin and Mexico City, 1593-1631and David Cahill, Urban Indigenous Ethnicities in Colonial Cuzco. The volume opens with commentary by John K Chance,pioneer scholar of u