Andean Cosmopolitans : : Seeking Justice and Reward at the Spanish Royal Court / / José Carlos de la Puente Luna.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: de la Puente Luna, José Carlos,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; One Don Melchor Is Dead --; Two Khipus, Community, and the Pursuit of Justice in Sixteenth-Century Peru --; Three The Expanding Web Indigenous Claimants Join the Early Modern Atlantic --; Four Who Speaks for the Indians? Lima, Castile, and the Rise of the Nación Índica --; Five At His Majesty’s Expense Imperial Quandaries and Indigenous Visitors at Court --; Six What’s in a Name? Impostors, Forgeries, and the Limits of Transatlantic Advocacy --; Seven The Great Inca Don Luis --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781477314876; 9783110745306
• DOI: 10.7560/314432
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: José Carlos de la Puente Luna.

After the Spanish victories over the Inca claimed Tawantinsuyu for Charles V in the 1530s, native Andeans undertook a series of perilous trips from Peru to the royal court in Spain. Ranging from an indigenous commoner entrusted with delivering birds of prey for courtly entertainment to an Inca prince who spent his days amid titles, pensions, and other royal favors, these sojourners were both exceptional and paradigmatic. Together, they shared a conviction that the sovereign’s absolute authority would guarantee that justice would be done and service would receive its due reward. As they negotiated their claims with imperial officials, Amerindian peoples helped forge the connections that sustained the expanding Habsburg realm’s imaginary and gave the modern global age its defining character. Andean Cosmopolitans recovers these travelers’ dramatic experiences, while simultaneously highlighting their profound influences on the making and remaking of the colonial world. While Spain’s American possessions became Spanish in many ways, the Andean travelers (in their cosmopolitan lives and journeys) also helped to shape Spain in the image and likeness of Peru. De la Puente brings remarkable insights to a narrative showing how previously unknown peoples and ideas created new power structures and institutions, as well as novel ways of being urban, Indian, elite, and subject. As indigenous people articulated and defended their own views regarding the legal and political character of the “Republic of the Indians,” they became state-builders of a special kind, cocreating the colonial order.