THE INVENTION OF COLONIAL ANDEAN WORLDS

A review essay on books by (1)Peter Gose, Invaders as Ancestors: On the Intercultural Making and Unmaking of Spanish Colonialism in the Andes (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008); (2)Gonzalo Lamana, Domination without Dominance: Inca-Spanish Encounters in Early Colonial Peru (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009); (3)Fernanda Macchi, Incas ilustrados: Reconstrucciones imperiales en la segunda mitad del siglo xviii (Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2009); and (4)Alejandra B. Osorio, Inventing Lima: Baroque Modernity in Peru's South Sea Metropolis (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).