Andrés Reséndez
University of California, Davis, History, Department Member
- Andrés Reséndez is a professor of history and author. His specialties are early European exploration and colonizatio... moreAndrés Reséndez is a professor of history and author. His specialties are early European exploration and colonization of the Americas, the U.S-Mexico border region, and the early history of the Pacific Ocean. His previous book, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award and winner of the 2017 Bancroft Prize from Columbia University. His next book, Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021), is about the first expedition that went from America to Asia and back, thus transforming the Pacific into a vital space of contact and exchange in 1565. He teaches courses on food and history, Latin America, and Mexico.edit
Los orígenes de la esclavitud y los desplazamientos forzados se confunden con los de la humanidad, asociados a guerras, colonizaciones y concepciones que definen a un grupo como inferior a otro. En Occidente, esta práctica se nutre de la... more
Los orígenes de la esclavitud y los desplazamientos forzados se confunden con los de la humanidad, asociados a guerras, colonizaciones y concepciones que definen a un grupo como inferior a otro. En Occidente, esta práctica se nutre de la experiencia y de la teoría que le proporcionan el derecho romano, el contacto con la cultura esclavista musulmana, la tradición medieval y la conquista del “Nuevo Mundo”. Una justificación de larga duración basada en capturas bélicas, transacciones comerciales o nacimiento, se conjugará en Iberoamérica con los objetivos económicos –mano de obra– o políticos –desnaturalización de indios rebeldes– dando como resultado que innumerables hombres, mujeres y niños de origen africano y amerindio, o sus descendientes, vivan las traumáticas experiencias de la captura violenta, la fragmentación familiar y comunitaria, el desarraigo y la deportación, así como la necesidad de sobrevivir y adaptarse a extrañas tierras y nuevos amos. Más tarde, y pese a las aboliciones legales, diversas formas de trabajo servil prolongarán las lógicas de desplazamiento y coacción laboral hacia nuevas formas de esclavitud moderna.
América en diásporas abre el debate hacia esas otras formas de esclavitud –indígena y postcolonial, en Chile y otros lugares del continente– y plantea otros modos de abordar la experiencia afroamericana, con estudios novedosos sobre sus problemas, contextos y dimensiones, así como sobre las dinámicas legales, sociales, culturales e ideológicas que alimentaron estas diásporas forzadas durante un período amplio que no se limita a la cronología colonial.
América en diásporas abre el debate hacia esas otras formas de esclavitud –indígena y postcolonial, en Chile y otros lugares del continente– y plantea otros modos de abordar la experiencia afroamericana, con estudios novedosos sobre sus problemas, contextos y dimensiones, así como sobre las dinámicas legales, sociales, culturales e ideológicas que alimentaron estas diásporas forzadas durante un período amplio que no se limita a la cronología colonial.
Research Interests: Latin American and Caribbean History, History of Slavery, Forced Migration, Migration Studies, Latin American History, and 6 moreEtnohistoria, Colonial Latin American History, Slavery in the Americas, South American Indians, Antropologia, Etnografia, Etnoecologia, Etnohistoria, and La esclavitud en Hispanoamérica
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This essay explores the historiography of Indian slavery in various borderlands of the hemisphere and argues that even though the Spanish Crown prohibited Indian slavery after 1542, several coercive labor arrangements akin to enslavement... more
This essay explores the historiography of Indian slavery in various borderlands of the hemisphere and argues that even though the Spanish Crown prohibited Indian slavery after 1542, several coercive labor arrangements akin to enslavement allowed owners to retain mastery over indigenous workers while formally complying with the law. These labor arrangements, including encomiendas in certain circumstances, repartimientos, convict leasing, debt peonage, and other forms of coercion, continued to function until the end of the colonial period and beyond. This chapter employs comparative methods and a wide range of empirical data to make a preliminary attempt to quantify the number of Indians held in bondage in different regions of the New World from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries.
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1. Carved spaces: Mexico's far north, the American southwest, or Indian domains? 2. A nation made visible: patronage, power, and ritual 3. The spirit of mercantile enterprise 4. The Benediction of the Roman ritual 5. The Texas... more
1. Carved spaces: Mexico's far north, the American southwest, or Indian domains? 2. A nation made visible: patronage, power, and ritual 3. The spirit of mercantile enterprise 4. The Benediction of the Roman ritual 5. The Texas Revolution and the not-so-secret history of shifting loyalties 6. The fate of Governor Albino Perez 7. State, market, and literary cultures 8. New Mexico at the razor's edge.
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Debt peonage flourished both in northern Mexico and the U.S. Southwest in the 1850s and 1860s. Free labor politicians who came to power in Mexico during the Restored Republic and in the United States after the Civil War attempted to curb... more
Debt peonage flourished both in northern Mexico and the U.S. Southwest in the 1850s and 1860s. Free labor politicians who came to power in Mexico during the Restored Republic and in the United States after the Civil War attempted to curb this system of coerced labor. However, these efforts met with only mixed results. In Mexico debt peonage remained a vibrant institution in the years leading up to the Mexican Revolution. In the United States peonage actually spread from the Southwest to the reconstructed South. This essay examines how these two North American nations dealt with this form of bondage in the 1860s as a way to highlight the shared labor institutions and the flow of ideas across the international border.
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... 17 Malcolm Ebright, "New Mexican Land Grants: The Legal Background," in Land, Water, and Culture: New Perspectives on Hispanic Land Grants, ed. Charles L. Briggs and John R. Van Ness (Albuquerque, 1987), 54; for the sermon... more
... 17 Malcolm Ebright, "New Mexican Land Grants: The Legal Background," in Land, Water, and Culture: New Perspectives on Hispanic Land Grants, ed. Charles L. Briggs and John R. Van Ness (Albuquerque, 1987), 54; for the sermon by Martinez, see Santiago Valdez, Biografia ...
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... AND GETTING DRUNK: STATE VERSUS MARKET IN TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO, 1800-1850 Andres Resendez Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 1821 ... Andres Resendez is an assistant professor in the department of history at the University of California t... more
... AND GETTING DRUNK: STATE VERSUS MARKET IN TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO, 1800-1850 Andres Resendez Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 1821 ... Andres Resendez is an assistant professor in the department of history at the University of California t Davis. ...
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... texts and among different subject groups, such as immigration, race, and education; the relation between public health and nationalistic movements and ... to this vast body of work, the editors identify three types of presentation... more
... texts and among different subject groups, such as immigration, race, and education; the relation between public health and nationalistic movements and ... to this vast body of work, the editors identify three types of presentation that break away from the heroic narrative that until ...
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... xiv ia Acknowledgments Patsy Montoya. In ways both professional and personal, Cynthia Bejarano,Herman Garcia, Jesus Barquet, Cecilia Vazquez, Jeff Shepherd, Dario Silva, Luis Vazquez,Herman Garcia, and William Flores have been... more
... xiv ia Acknowledgments Patsy Montoya. In ways both professional and personal, Cynthia Bejarano,Herman Garcia, Jesus Barquet, Cecilia Vazquez, Jeff Shepherd, Dario Silva, Luis Vazquez,Herman Garcia, and William Flores have been tremendously supportive. Thank you. ...
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Page 1. Hispanic American Historical Review 89:4 Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press Book Reviews General and Sources Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest: An Interpretive Journey through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2. Edited by davíd... more
Page 1. Hispanic American Historical Review 89:4 Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press Book Reviews General and Sources Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest: An Interpretive Journey through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2. Edited by davíd carrasco and scott sessions. ...
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The Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis posits that prehistoric population expansions, precipitated by the innovation or early adop-tion of agriculture, played an important role in the uneven distribution of language families recorded... more
The Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis posits that prehistoric population expansions, precipitated by the innovation or early adop-tion of agriculture, played an important role in the uneven distribution of language families recorded across the world. In this case, the most widely spread language families today came to be distributed at the expense of those that have more restricted distributions. In the Americas, Uto-Aztecan is one such language family that may have been spread across Mesoamerica and the American Southwest by ancient farmers. We evaluated this hypothesis with a large-scale study of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y-chromosomal DNA vari-ation in indigenous populations from these regions. Partial correlation coefficients, determined with Mantel tests, show that Y-chromosome variation in indigenous populations from the American Southwest and Mesoamerica correlates significantly with linguistic distances ( r = 0.33–0.384; P < 0.02), whereas mtDNA diversity correlat...
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Between the 1660s and the 1680s the Spanish Crown launched a major campaign to end the enslavement of Indians throughout its far-flung empire. Using this momentous crusade as a point of departure, this article identifies the principal... more
Between the 1660s and the 1680s the Spanish Crown launched a major campaign to end the enslavement of Indians throughout its far-flung empire. Using this momentous crusade as a point of departure, this article identifies the principal slaving grounds of the Spanish empire in the second half of the seventeenth century; examines the participation of royal officials, colonists, and Native Americans during this protracted campaign; and provides an empire-wide view of the phenomenon of Indian slavery as well as the tremendous difficulties of emancipating the Native slaves.
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Revolution and women did not mix well, at least in the eyes of most leaders of the insurrection that swept Mexico in 1910-17. Moreover, common wisdom suggested that armies were no place for the “gentler sex” and hence the two kinds of... more
Revolution and women did not mix well, at least in the eyes of most leaders of the insurrection that swept Mexico in 1910-17. Moreover, common wisdom suggested that armies were no place for the “gentler sex” and hence the two kinds of women that did accompany men to the battleground–female soldiers and soldaderas–were generally regarded as marginal to the fighting and extraordinary, or strange, in character.Female soldiers received much notice in the press and arts during the revolution and in its aftermath. They were portrayed as fearless women dressed in men's garb flaunting cartridge belts across the chest and a Mauser rifle on one shoulder. But they were invariably shown in the guise of curiosities, aberrations brought about by the revolution. Soldaderas received their share of attention too. They were depicted as loyal, self-sacrificing companions to the soldiers or, in less sympathetic renderings, as enslaved camp followers: “the loyalty of the soldier's wife is more a...
Research Interests: Sociology, Cultural Studies, The Americas, Americas, Notice, and 3 moreLoyalty, Historical Studies, and Wife
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Page 1. Hispanic American Historical Review 89:4 Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press Book Reviews General and Sources Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest: An Interpretive Journey through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2. Edited by davíd... more
Page 1. Hispanic American Historical Review 89:4 Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press Book Reviews General and Sources Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest: An Interpretive Journey through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2. Edited by davíd carrasco and scott sessions. ...
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... xiv ia Acknowledgments Patsy Montoya. In ways both professional and personal, Cynthia Bejarano,Herman Garcia, Jesus Barquet, Cecilia Vazquez, Jeff Shepherd, Dario Silva, Luis Vazquez,Herman Garcia, and William Flores have been... more
... xiv ia Acknowledgments Patsy Montoya. In ways both professional and personal, Cynthia Bejarano,Herman Garcia, Jesus Barquet, Cecilia Vazquez, Jeff Shepherd, Dario Silva, Luis Vazquez,Herman Garcia, and William Flores have been tremendously supportive. Thank you. ...
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... AND GETTING DRUNK: STATE VERSUS MARKET IN TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO, 1800-1850 Andres Resendez Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 1821 ... Andres Resendez is an assistant professor in the department of history at the University of California t... more
... AND GETTING DRUNK: STATE VERSUS MARKET IN TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO, 1800-1850 Andres Resendez Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 1821 ... Andres Resendez is an assistant professor in the department of history at the University of California t Davis. ...
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... 17 Malcolm Ebright, "New Mexican Land Grants: The Legal Background," in Land, Water, and Culture: New Perspectives on Hispanic Land Grants, ed. Charles L. Briggs and John R. Van Ness (Albuquerque, 1987), 54; for the sermon... more
... 17 Malcolm Ebright, "New Mexican Land Grants: The Legal Background," in Land, Water, and Culture: New Perspectives on Hispanic Land Grants, ed. Charles L. Briggs and John R. Van Ness (Albuquerque, 1987), 54; for the sermon by Martinez, see Santiago Valdez, Biografia ...
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Research Interests: Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Geography, Archaeology, Anthropology, and 15 moreMigration, Biology, Native American, Medicine, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Canada, Mitochondrial DNA, Humans, Close relationships, Diffusion, American, Haplogroup, Geographic distribution, Haplotype, and Founder Effect
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This essay explores the historiography of Indian slavery in various borderlands of the hemisphere and argues that even though the Spanish Crown prohibited Indian slavery after 1542, several coercive labor arrangements akin to enslavement... more
This essay explores the historiography of Indian slavery in various borderlands of the hemisphere and argues that even though the Spanish Crown prohibited Indian slavery after 1542, several coercive labor arrangements akin to enslavement allowed owners to retain mastery over indigenous workers while formally complying with the law. These labor arrangements, including encomiendas in certain circumstances, repartimientos, convict leasing, debt peonage, and other forms of coercion, continued to function until the end of the colonial period and beyond. This chapter employs comparative methods and a wide range of empirical data to make a preliminary attempt to quantify the number of Indians held in bondage in different regions of the New World from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries.
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Changing National Identities at the Frontier Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850 This book explores how the diverse and fiercely independent peoples of Texas and New Mexico came to think of themselves as members of one particular national... more
Changing National Identities at the Frontier Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850 This book explores how the diverse and fiercely independent peoples of Texas and New Mexico came to think of themselves as members of one particular national community or another m the years ...
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Abstract:Debt peonage flourished both in northern Mexico and the U.S. Southwest in the 1850s and 1860s. Free labor politicians who came to power in Mexico during the Restored Republic and in the United States after the Civil War attempted... more
Abstract:Debt peonage flourished both in northern Mexico and the U.S. Southwest in the 1850s and 1860s. Free labor politicians who came to power in Mexico during the Restored Republic and in the United States after the Civil War attempted to curb this system of coerced labor. However, these efforts met with only mixed results. In Mexico debt peonage remained a vibrant institution in the years leading up to the Mexican Revolution. In the United States peonage actually spread from the Southwest to the reconstructed South. This essay examines how these two North American nations dealt with this form of bondage in the 1860s as a way to highlight the shared labor institutions and the flow of ideas across the international border.