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Colonial Spanish America

A Documentary History

William B. Taylor and Kenneth Mills

Colonial Spanish America is a book of readings about people—people from different worlds who came together to form a society by chance and by design in the years after 1492. The book is meant to enrich, not repeat, the work of existing texts on this period, and its focus on people makes it stand out from other books that have concentrated on the political and economic aspects of the culture. This text provides a detailed look at the cultural development of colonial Latin America using readings, documents, historical analysis, and visual materials, including photographs, drawings, and paintings. The book makes interesting and exciting use of the illustrations and documents, which show social changes, puzzling developments, and the experience of living in the colonial society.

Religion and society are the integral themes of Colonial Spanish America. Religion becomes the nexus for much of what has been treated as political, social, economic, and cultural history during this period. Society is just as inclusive, allowing the reader to meet a variety of individuals-not faceless social groups. While some familiar faces and voices are included-namely those of Spanish conquerors, chroniclers, and missionaries-other, less familiar points of view complement and complicate the better-known narratives of this history. In treating Iberia and America, before as well as after their meeting, apparent contradictions emerge as opportunities for understanding; different perspectives become prompts for wider discussion. Other themes include exploration; military and spiritual conquest; and the formation, consolidation, reform, and collapse of colonial institutions of government and the Church, and the accompanying changes in the economy and labor.

Colonial Spanish America: A Documentary History is an excellent tool for Latin American history survey courses.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 372 • Trim: 7 x 10
978-0-8420-2573-7 • Paperback • April 1998 • $63.00 • (£48.00)
978-0-7425-7408-3 • eBook • April 1998 • $59.50 • (£46.00)
Series: Jaguar Books on Latin America
Subjects: History / Latin America / General
Chapter 1 Editors' Note
Chapter 2 List of Illustrations
Chapter 3 Introduction—Texts and Images for Colonial History
Part 4 I Old Worlds and the Time of Discoveries
Chapter 5 The Ancestors of the People Called Indians
Chapter 6 The Inka's Tunics
Chapter 7 The Lords and Holy Men of Tenochtitlan Reply to the Franciscans, 1524
Chapter 8 The Aztec Stone of the Five Eras
Chapter 9 Coexistence in the Medieval Spanish Kingdoms
Chapter 10 The Coming of the White People
Chapter 11 Orders Given to "the Twelve"
Chapter 12 Francisco de Vitoria on the Evangelization of Unbelievers, Salamanca, Spain
Chapter 13 Two Woodcuts Accompanying a 1509 German Translation of Amerigo Vespucci's Letter to Pietro Soderini
Chapter 14 Christoph Weiditz's Drawing of an Indian Woman of Mexico
Chapter 15 Christoph Weiditz's Drawing of a Morisco Woman and Her Daughter at Home
Part 16 II The Americas as New Worlds for All?
Chapter 17 Fray Pedro de Gante's Letter to Charles V, Mexico City
Chapter 18 The Evils of Cochineal, Tlaxcala, Mexico
Chapter 19 The Indian Pueblo of Texupa in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
Chapter 20 Fray Juan Izuierdo's Letter and Report to Charles V, Barcelona, Spain
Chapter 21 Alonso Ortiz's Letter to His Wife, Mexico City
Chapter 22 Jeronimo de Benarcama's Letter to Francisco de Borja, Granada, Spain
Chapter 23 Jose de Acosta on the Salvation of the Indians
Chapter 24 Miguel Hernandez, Master of Mule Trains
Chapter 25 Two Images from the Codex Osuna, Mexico City
Chapter 26 Two Images from the Codex Sierra, Oaxaca, Mexico
Chapter 27 Fray Diego Valades's Ideal Atrio and Its Activities
Chapter 28 The Huejotzingo Altarpiece, Mexico
Chapter 29 The Mulatto Gentlemen of Esmeraldas, Ecuador
Part 30 III Spanish American Baroque in a Long Seventeenth Century
Chapter 31 Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's Appeal Concerning the Priests, Peru
Chapter 32 Pedro de Leon Portocarrero's Description of Lim, Peru
Chapter 33 The Church and Monastery of San Francisco, Lima, Peru
Chapter 34 Beatriz de Padilla, Mulatta Mistress and Mother
Chapter 35 Fruits of the Faith in the Seventeenth Century
Chapter 36 Santa Rosa of Lima According to a Pious Accountant
Chapter 37 Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz's Letter to Sor Filotea
Chapter 38 Portraits of Santa Rosa and Sor Juana
Chapter 39 Mutilated Memory
Chapter 40 Francisco de Avila's Christmas Eve Sermon
Chapter 41 The Witness Francisco Poma y Altas Caldeas of San Pedro de Acas, Cajatambo, Peru
Chapter 42 Crossing and Dome of the Rosary Chapel, Church of Santo Domingo, Puebla, Mexico
Chapter 43 Two Paintings of a Corpus Christi Procession in Cusco, Peru
Part 44 IV Bourbon Rules and American Practices in a Short Eighteenth Century
Chapter 45 Nicolas Nenguiru's Letter to the Governor of Buenos Aires
Chapter 46 Jose de Galvez's Decrees for the King's Subjects in Mexico
Chapter 47 The Foundation of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe de los Morenos de Amapa, MExico
Chapter 48 Concolorcorvo Engages the Postal Inspector about Indian Affairs, Lima, Peru
Chapter 49 Parish Priests and Indian Resistance in Late Colonial Mexico
Chapter 50 Taxonomy of a Colonial "Riot"
Chapter 51 Juan Francisco Dominguez's Discourses on the Ten Commandments, Mexico
Chapter 52 Two Castas Paintings from Eighteenth-Century Mexico
Chapter 53 Late Eighteenth-Century Inscriptions on Fountains and Monuments in Mexico City
Chapter 54 Tupac Amaru I, Remembered
Chapter 55 "America Nursing Spanish Noble Boys," Peru
Chapter 56 Jose Maria Morelos's "Sentiments of the Nation," Chilpancingo, Mexico
Chapter 57 The Argentine Declaration of Independence, San Miguel de Tucuman
Chapter 58 Glossary
Chapter 59 Notes on Selections and Sources
Chapter 60 Index
Kenneth Mills and William B. Taylor have produced a much-needed and innovative selection of texts and images in this documentary of Spanish America. This volume is recommended to students and aficionados of Spanish colonial history in the Americas.
— Colonial Latin American Historical Review


Adding Colonial Spanish America: A Documentary History to syllabi which treat what is usually referred to as the 'colonial period' will undoubtedly enrich the experience and expand the understanding of undergraduates studying Latin America.
— CJLACS/RCELAC; Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies


[This collection] constitutes the most diverse and illuminating set yet assembled on colonial Spanish America.
— Rocky Mountain Review


Colonial Spanish America

A Documentary History

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Summary
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  • Colonial Spanish America is a book of readings about people—people from different worlds who came together to form a society by chance and by design in the years after 1492. The book is meant to enrich, not repeat, the work of existing texts on this period, and its focus on people makes it stand out from other books that have concentrated on the political and economic aspects of the culture. This text provides a detailed look at the cultural development of colonial Latin America using readings, documents, historical analysis, and visual materials, including photographs, drawings, and paintings. The book makes interesting and exciting use of the illustrations and documents, which show social changes, puzzling developments, and the experience of living in the colonial society.

    Religion and society are the integral themes of Colonial Spanish America. Religion becomes the nexus for much of what has been treated as political, social, economic, and cultural history during this period. Society is just as inclusive, allowing the reader to meet a variety of individuals-not faceless social groups. While some familiar faces and voices are included-namely those of Spanish conquerors, chroniclers, and missionaries-other, less familiar points of view complement and complicate the better-known narratives of this history. In treating Iberia and America, before as well as after their meeting, apparent contradictions emerge as opportunities for understanding; different perspectives become prompts for wider discussion. Other themes include exploration; military and spiritual conquest; and the formation, consolidation, reform, and collapse of colonial institutions of government and the Church, and the accompanying changes in the economy and labor.

    Colonial Spanish America: A Documentary History is an excellent tool for Latin American history survey courses.

Details
Details
  • Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
    Pages: 372 • Trim: 7 x 10
    978-0-8420-2573-7 • Paperback • April 1998 • $63.00 • (£48.00)
    978-0-7425-7408-3 • eBook • April 1998 • $59.50 • (£46.00)
    Series: Jaguar Books on Latin America
    Subjects: History / Latin America / General
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Chapter 1 Editors' Note
    Chapter 2 List of Illustrations
    Chapter 3 Introduction—Texts and Images for Colonial History
    Part 4 I Old Worlds and the Time of Discoveries
    Chapter 5 The Ancestors of the People Called Indians
    Chapter 6 The Inka's Tunics
    Chapter 7 The Lords and Holy Men of Tenochtitlan Reply to the Franciscans, 1524
    Chapter 8 The Aztec Stone of the Five Eras
    Chapter 9 Coexistence in the Medieval Spanish Kingdoms
    Chapter 10 The Coming of the White People
    Chapter 11 Orders Given to "the Twelve"
    Chapter 12 Francisco de Vitoria on the Evangelization of Unbelievers, Salamanca, Spain
    Chapter 13 Two Woodcuts Accompanying a 1509 German Translation of Amerigo Vespucci's Letter to Pietro Soderini
    Chapter 14 Christoph Weiditz's Drawing of an Indian Woman of Mexico
    Chapter 15 Christoph Weiditz's Drawing of a Morisco Woman and Her Daughter at Home
    Part 16 II The Americas as New Worlds for All?
    Chapter 17 Fray Pedro de Gante's Letter to Charles V, Mexico City
    Chapter 18 The Evils of Cochineal, Tlaxcala, Mexico
    Chapter 19 The Indian Pueblo of Texupa in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
    Chapter 20 Fray Juan Izuierdo's Letter and Report to Charles V, Barcelona, Spain
    Chapter 21 Alonso Ortiz's Letter to His Wife, Mexico City
    Chapter 22 Jeronimo de Benarcama's Letter to Francisco de Borja, Granada, Spain
    Chapter 23 Jose de Acosta on the Salvation of the Indians
    Chapter 24 Miguel Hernandez, Master of Mule Trains
    Chapter 25 Two Images from the Codex Osuna, Mexico City
    Chapter 26 Two Images from the Codex Sierra, Oaxaca, Mexico
    Chapter 27 Fray Diego Valades's Ideal Atrio and Its Activities
    Chapter 28 The Huejotzingo Altarpiece, Mexico
    Chapter 29 The Mulatto Gentlemen of Esmeraldas, Ecuador
    Part 30 III Spanish American Baroque in a Long Seventeenth Century
    Chapter 31 Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's Appeal Concerning the Priests, Peru
    Chapter 32 Pedro de Leon Portocarrero's Description of Lim, Peru
    Chapter 33 The Church and Monastery of San Francisco, Lima, Peru
    Chapter 34 Beatriz de Padilla, Mulatta Mistress and Mother
    Chapter 35 Fruits of the Faith in the Seventeenth Century
    Chapter 36 Santa Rosa of Lima According to a Pious Accountant
    Chapter 37 Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz's Letter to Sor Filotea
    Chapter 38 Portraits of Santa Rosa and Sor Juana
    Chapter 39 Mutilated Memory
    Chapter 40 Francisco de Avila's Christmas Eve Sermon
    Chapter 41 The Witness Francisco Poma y Altas Caldeas of San Pedro de Acas, Cajatambo, Peru
    Chapter 42 Crossing and Dome of the Rosary Chapel, Church of Santo Domingo, Puebla, Mexico
    Chapter 43 Two Paintings of a Corpus Christi Procession in Cusco, Peru
    Part 44 IV Bourbon Rules and American Practices in a Short Eighteenth Century
    Chapter 45 Nicolas Nenguiru's Letter to the Governor of Buenos Aires
    Chapter 46 Jose de Galvez's Decrees for the King's Subjects in Mexico
    Chapter 47 The Foundation of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe de los Morenos de Amapa, MExico
    Chapter 48 Concolorcorvo Engages the Postal Inspector about Indian Affairs, Lima, Peru
    Chapter 49 Parish Priests and Indian Resistance in Late Colonial Mexico
    Chapter 50 Taxonomy of a Colonial "Riot"
    Chapter 51 Juan Francisco Dominguez's Discourses on the Ten Commandments, Mexico
    Chapter 52 Two Castas Paintings from Eighteenth-Century Mexico
    Chapter 53 Late Eighteenth-Century Inscriptions on Fountains and Monuments in Mexico City
    Chapter 54 Tupac Amaru I, Remembered
    Chapter 55 "America Nursing Spanish Noble Boys," Peru
    Chapter 56 Jose Maria Morelos's "Sentiments of the Nation," Chilpancingo, Mexico
    Chapter 57 The Argentine Declaration of Independence, San Miguel de Tucuman
    Chapter 58 Glossary
    Chapter 59 Notes on Selections and Sources
    Chapter 60 Index
Reviews
Reviews
  • Kenneth Mills and William B. Taylor have produced a much-needed and innovative selection of texts and images in this documentary of Spanish America. This volume is recommended to students and aficionados of Spanish colonial history in the Americas.
    — Colonial Latin American Historical Review


    Adding Colonial Spanish America: A Documentary History to syllabi which treat what is usually referred to as the 'colonial period' will undoubtedly enrich the experience and expand the understanding of undergraduates studying Latin America.
    — CJLACS/RCELAC; Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies


    [This collection] constitutes the most diverse and illuminating set yet assembled on colonial Spanish America.
    — Rocky Mountain Review


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