Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest: Huamanga to 1640 - Tapa blanda

"A masterful and superbly written history of the Indians of the Ayachucho region during the first century after the conquest, Stern's work greatly advances research into Andean society."--Jeffrey L. Klaiber, S. J., "The Americas" ""Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest "is clearly indispensable reading for Andeanists and highly recommended to ethnohistorians generally. In technical respects it is a job done right, and conceptually it stands out as a handsome example of anthropology and history woven into one tight fabric of inquiry."--Frank Salomon, "Ethnohistory" "A masterful and superbly written history of the Indians of the Ayachucho region during the first century after the conquest, Stern's work greatly advances research into Andean society."--Jeffrey L. Klaiber, S. J., The Americas A masterful and superbly written history of the Indians of the Ayachucho region during the first century after the conquest, Stern s work greatly advances research into Andean society. Jeffrey L. Klaiber, S. J., The Americas " A masterful and superbly written history of the Indians of the Ayachucho region during the first century after the conquest, Stern s work greatly advances research into Andean society. Jeffrey L. Klaiber, S. J., "The Americas"" "A masterful and superbly written history of the Indians of the Ayachucho region during the first century after the conquest, Stern's work greatly advances research into Andean society."--Jeffrey L. Klaiber, S. J., "The Americas" "This book is a monument to both scholarship and comprehension, comparable in its treatment of the indigenous peoples after the conquest only to that of Charles Gibson for the Aztecs, and perhaps the best volume read by this reviewer in several years."--Frederick P. Bowser, "American Historical Review"

First the Seed spotlights the history of plant breeding and shows how efforts to control the seed have shaped the emergence of the agricultural biotechnology industry. This second edition of a classic work in the political economy of science includes an extensive, new chapter updating the analysis to include the most recent developments in the struggle over the direction of crop genetic engineering.
1988 Cloth, 1990 Paperback, Cambridge University Press
Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Award of the Agricultural History Society
Winner of the Robert K. Merton Award of the American Sociological Association