Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Andean Landscapes, Real and Imagined -- charting the contours of highland ecologies, cultures, and polities -- republican fantasies, racial fears -- the vexing issue of indian tribute -- 1850s - a benchmark -- pathways into the rural andean world -- reworking race -- 2 Colombia: Assimilation or Marginalization of the Indians? -- reinventing indians as economic obstacles -- indian dispossession, defense, or defiance? north-south contrasts -- páez chieftains and the treachery of war -- between forest and world market -- 3 Ecuador: Modernizing Indian Servitude as the Road to Progress -- coercing indians into "civilization" and christianity -- transcultural pathways out of rural indianness -- religion, markets, industry: forging the otavalan community -- 4 Peru: War, National Sovereignty, and the Indian Question -- emancipation, extraction, civilization, or protection? creole peru confronts its indian problem -- everyday forms of extraction, resistance, and social climbing -- patriots or barbarians? armed peasants in the war of the pacific -- the rebels of huaylas -- banishing indians from history and the nation -- 5 Bolivia: Dangerous Pacts, Insurgent Indians -- between conquest and reconquest: the communal land question -- zárate willka and the aymara peasant movement -- Conclusion: Postcolonial Republics and the Burden of Race -- Bibliographic Essay -- colombia -- ecuador -- peru -- bolivia -- Index.