{"product_id":"global-indios-the-indigenous-struggle-for-justice-in-sixteenth-century-spain-9780822358473","title":"Global Indios: The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth-Century Spain","description":"In the sixteenth century hundreds of thousands of indios-indigenous peoples from the territories of the Spanish empire-were enslaved and relocated throughout the Iberian world. Although various laws and decrees outlawed indio enslavement, several loopholes allowed the practice to continue. In \u003ci\u003eGlobal Indios\u003c\/i\u003e Nancy E. van Deusen documents the more than one hundred lawsuits between 1530 and 1585 that indio slaves living in Castile brought to the Spanish courts to secure their freedom. Because plaintiffs had to prove their indio-ness in a Spanish imperial context, these lawsuits reveal the difficulties of determining who was an indio and who was not-especially since it was an all-encompassing construct connoting subservience and political personhood and at times could refer to people from Mexico, Peru, or South or East Asia. Van Deusen demonstrates that the categories of \u003ci\u003efree\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eslave\u003c\/i\u003e were often not easily defined, and she forces a rethinking of the meaning of indio in ways that emphasize the need to situate colonial Spanish American indigenous subjects in a global context.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nancy E. Van Deusen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/29\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.30w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822358473\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNancy E. van Deusen is Professor of History at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eBetween the Sacred and the Worldly: The Institutional and Cultural Practice of Recogimiento in Colonial Lima\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Souls of Purgatory: The Spiritual Diary of a Seventeenth-Century Afro-Peruvian Mystic, Ursula de Jesús\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43173113954419,"sku":"9.78082E+12","price":193.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_8d9f8782-ccbe-44a1-86e0-e26cf8e22e17.jpg?v=1751626900","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/global-indios-the-indigenous-struggle-for-justice-in-sixteenth-century-spain-9780822358473","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}