This incurable evil : Mapuche resistance to Spanish enslavement, 1598-1687 /

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Berger, Eugene Clark, author.
Imprint:	Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2023]
Description:	xii, 194 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Atlantic crossings Atlantic crossings.
Subject:	Mapuche Indians -- Wars. Indians, Treatment of -- Chile. Slavery -- Chile -- History. Indians, Treatment of. Mapuche Indians -- Wars. Slavery. Chile -- History -- 1565-1810. Chile. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13123539

Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:	9780817321581 0817321586 9780817361105 0817361103 9780817394523
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Documents how initial Mapuche-Spanish alliances were built and how they were destroyed by increasingly powerful slave-trading elites operating like organized crime families"--

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Indigenous Slavery and Slave Societies
1. Winka: The Sixteenth Century and Origins of Mapuche Resistance
2. A Pacific Coast Diaspora: The Incurable Evil and an Evolving Need for Resistance
3. The Era of "Great Tokis"
4. Indios Amigos and the 1655 Mapuche Uprising
5. Toward a Ban of Mapuche Enslavement: Midcentury Resistance and Outrageously Corrupt Governors
Conclusion: An Act of God and an End to the Trade?
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Similar Items