Confronting the tribal zone: Toward a critical ethnohistory of colonial state formation in San Juan through the system of encomiendas, 1509–1520
The present work tackles the problem of colonial state formation and the system of encomiendas in the island of San Juan during the first eleven years of Spanish colonization, mainly from 1509 to 1520. My contention is that the implementation of the system of encomiendas, a colonial set of servile r...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2004
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3152686 |