{"product_id":"modern-inquisitions-9780822334170","title":"Modern Inquisitions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores the profound cultural transformations triggered by Spain's efforts to colonize the Andean region, and demonstrates the continuing influence of the Inquisition to the present day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eModern Inquisitions\u003c\/i\u003e is a superb inquiry into the obscured American origins of modernity. With exceptional lucidity and judicious indignation, Irene Silverblatt persuasively argues that the Spanish Inquisition in colonial Peru was a modern institution that intimately intertwined race-thinking and bureaucratic rationality. By illuminating the subterranean currents shaping the modern world, this outstanding book renders the violent civilizing hierarchies they have carved at once more comprehensible and more intolerable.”—Fernando Coronil, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eModern Inquisitions\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary work of research and interpretation. Based on painstaking archival research in the Lima Inquisition records, it makes crucial contributions to the debates about race, state-formation, and colonialism.”—Barbara Weinstein, author of \u003ci\u003eFor Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo, 1920–1964\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Series ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Prologue 3\u003cbr\u003e Three Accused Heretics 29 \u003cbr\u003e Inquisition as Bureaucracy 55\u003cbr\u003e Mysteries of State 77\u003cbr\u003e Globalization and Guinea Pigs 99\u003cbr\u003e States and Stains 117\u003cbr\u003e New Christians and New World Fears 141\u003cbr\u003e The Inca’s Witches 161\u003cbr\u003e Becoming Indian 187\u003cbr\u003e Afterword 217\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Notes on Bias and Sources 227\u003cbr\u003e Notes 235\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 283\u003cbr\u003e Index 293","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406036607319,"sku":"9780822334170","price":21.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822334170.jpg?v=1730494325","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modern-inquisitions-9780822334170","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}