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| Publications [#30236] of Irene M Silverblatt
Books
- I.M. Silverblatt. Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World. Duke University Press,
December, December, 2004.
Abstract:
Modern Inquisitions explores the cultural
work of
colonialism in the seventeenth century
Peruvian Andes and
attempts to address some of the complex,
cultural practices
that accompanied the institutionalization
of state power in
Europe and the colonial New World. A
primary source of my
investigation has been records from the
Lima headquarters
of the Spanish Inquisition. These
documents show us the
Inquisition's modern side: it was Europe's
most advanced
bureaucracy at the time and it helped
instantiate the
racialized categories of colonial rule that
girded modern
state-making.
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