The General Resettlement of Indians in the Colonial Andes
by
Jeremy Ravi Mumford
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
In 1569 the Spanish viceroy Francisco de Toledo ordered more than one million native people of the central Andes to move to newly founded Spanish-style towns called reducciones. This campaign, known as the General Resettlement of Indians, represented a turning point in the history of European colonialism:...