Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. One Don Melchor Is Dead 1
6. Two Khipus, Community, and the Pursuit of Justice in Sixteenth-Century Peru 20
7. Three The Expanding Web Indigenous Claimants Join the Early Modern Atlantic 51
8. Four Who Speaks for the Indians? Lima, Castile, and the Rise of the Nación Índica 89
9. Five At His Majesty’s Expense Imperial Quandaries and Indigenous Visitors at Court 123
10. Six What’s in a Name? Impostors, Forgeries, and the Limits of Transatlantic Advocacy 155
11. Seven The Great Inca Don Luis 193
12. Notes 203
13. Bibliography 277
14. Index 319