The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas
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Table of Contents

Introduction Frank Salomon and Stuart Schwartz
1. Testimonies: the making and reading of native South American historical sources
2. Ethnography in South America: the first two hundred years
3. The earliest South American lifeways
4: The maritime, highland, forest dynamic and the origins of complex culture
5. The evolution of Andean diversity: regional formations, 500 BCE–600 CE
6. Andean urbanism and statecraft, 550–1450 CE
7. Chiefdoms: the prevalence and persistence of 'Señorios Naturales', 1400 to European conquest
8. Archaeology of the Caribbean region
9. Prehistory of the Southern Cone
10. The fourfold domain: Inka power and its social foundations
11. The crises and transformations of invaded societies: the Caribbean, 1492–1580
12. The crises and transformations of invaded societies, 1500–1580: Andean area
13. The crises and transformations of invaded societies: coastal Brazil in the sixteenth century
14. The crises and transformations of invaded societies in the La Plata Basin (1535–1650)
15. The colonial condition in the Quechua-Aymara heartland, 1570–1780
16. Warfare, reorganization, and readaptation at the margins of Spanish rule: the southern margin (1573–1882)
17. The western margins of Amazonia from the early sixteenth to the early nineteenth century
18. Warfare, reorganization, and readaptation at the margins of Spanish rule: the Chaco and Paraguay (1573–1882)
19. Destruction, resistance and transformation: southern, coastal and northern Brazil, 1580–1890
20. Native peoples confront colonial regimes in northeastern South America, c. 1500–1900
21. New peoples and new kinds of people: adaptation, readjustment, and ethnogenesis in South American indigenous societies (Colonial Era)
22. The 'Republic of Indians' in revolt (c. 1680–c. 1790)
23. Andean highland peasants and the trials of nation-making during the nineteenth century
24. Indigenous peoples and the rise of independent nation-states in lowland South America
25. Andean people in the twentieth century
26. Lowland peoples of the twentieth century.

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