Four Stabilizing the Unstable and Ordering the Disorderly

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. One Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Absolutism, and Lima 1
6. Two Balls of Fire: Premonitions and the Destruction of Lima 21
7. Three The City of Kings: Before and After 52
8. Four Stabilizing the Unstable and Ordering the Disorderly 74
9. Five Contending Notions of Lima: Obstacles to Urban Reform in the Aftermath 90
10. Six Licentious Friars, Wandering Nuns, and Tangled Censos: A Shakeup of the Church 106
11. Seven Controlling Women’s Bodies and Placating God’s Wrath: Moral Reform 131
12. Eight All These Indian and Black People Bear Us No Good Will”: The Lima and Huarochirí Rebellions of 1750 156
13. Epilogue Aftershocks and Echoes 186
14. Notes 193
15. Bibliography 223
16. Index 251