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Book Synopsis
This fascinating, deeply human narrative of colonialism and capitalism captures the history of a New World winery in the desert mountains of southern Peru.

Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction: Contexts and Contextualizing
  • Part I. Background and Deep Context
    • 2. Theory: Peripheries, Frontiers, Actors, and Innovations
    • 3. Core-State: Spain, Wine, and the Birth of Empire
    • 4. Periphery: Moquegua, Its Physical Environment, and Indigenous Peoples
  • Part II. Actors and Institutions: Moquegua on the Periphery of Empire
    • 5. Following the Actors, Act 1: Discovery and Exploration
    • 6. Following the Actors, Act 2: Encomiendas, Encomenderos, and Founders
    • 7. Colonial Institutions: Peripheral Transformations and Contested Identities
  • Part III. Wine: The Commodity
    • 8. Commerce: Wine in an Imperial Colonial Economy
    • 9. Production: Growing Grapes and Making Wine in Moquegua
    • 10. Liquid Assets: A Historical Overview of Moquegua’s Wine Economy
  • Part IV. Material Culture: Objects as Actors and Agents
    • 11. Rural Landscape and Built Environment
    • 12. Ceramics: Industrial and Domestic
    • 13. The Structures of Everyday Life: Nonceramic Artifacts and Materials
  • Part V. Concluding Synthesis: On the Frontier of a Periphery of an Empire
    • 14. Dichotomies versus Mosaics
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This fascinating, deeply human narrative of colonialism and capitalism captures the history of a New World winery in the desert mountains of southern Peru.

      Table of Contents
      • List of Illustrations
      • Preface
      • Acknowledgments
      • 1. Introduction: Contexts and Contextualizing
      • Part I. Background and Deep Context
        • 2. Theory: Peripheries, Frontiers, Actors, and Innovations
        • 3. Core-State: Spain, Wine, and the Birth of Empire
        • 4. Periphery: Moquegua, Its Physical Environment, and Indigenous Peoples
      • Part II. Actors and Institutions: Moquegua on the Periphery of Empire
        • 5. Following the Actors, Act 1: Discovery and Exploration
        • 6. Following the Actors, Act 2: Encomiendas, Encomenderos, and Founders
        • 7. Colonial Institutions: Peripheral Transformations and Contested Identities
      • Part III. Wine: The Commodity
        • 8. Commerce: Wine in an Imperial Colonial Economy
        • 9. Production: Growing Grapes and Making Wine in Moquegua
        • 10. Liquid Assets: A Historical Overview of Moquegua’s Wine Economy
      • Part IV. Material Culture: Objects as Actors and Agents
        • 11. Rural Landscape and Built Environment
        • 12. Ceramics: Industrial and Domestic
        • 13. The Structures of Everyday Life: Nonceramic Artifacts and Materials
      • Part V. Concluding Synthesis: On the Frontier of a Periphery of an Empire
        • 14. Dichotomies versus Mosaics
      • Notes
      • References
      • Index

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