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Title

Colonial Spanish America : a documentary history / edited by Kenneth Mills and William B. Taylor.

Publication

Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Mills, Kenneth R.
• Taylor, William B.

Description

xxiv, 372 pages : illustrations, map, plans; 25 cm

Subjects

• Latin America > History > To 1830
• Latin America > History > To 1830 > Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction - Texts and Images for Colonial History -- Pt. I. Old Worlds and the Time of Discoveries. 1. The Ancestors of the People Called Indians: A View from Huarochiri, Peru (ca. 1598-1608). 2. The Inka's Tunics (fifteenth to sixteenth centuries). 3. The Lords and Holy Men of Tenochtitlan Reply to the Franciscans, 1524 (1564). 4. The Aztec Stone of the Five Eras (late fifteenth century). 5. Coexistence in the Medieval Spanish Kingdoms (ninth to twelfth centuries). 6. The Coming of the White People: Reflections on the Mythologization of History in Latin America / Olivia Harris. 7. Orders Given to "the Twelve" (1523). 8. Francisco de Vitoria on the Evangelization of Unbelievers, Salamanca, Spain (1534-35). 9. Two Woodcuts Accompanying a 1509 German Translation of Amerigo Vespucci's Letter to Pietro Soderini (1504). 10. Christoph Weiditz's Drawing of an Indian Woman of Mexico (1529). 11. Christoph Weiditz's Drawing of a Morisco Woman and Her Daughter at Home (1529) --
• Pt. II. The Americas as New Worlds for All? 12. Fray Pedro de Gante's Letter to Charles V, Mexico City (1552). 13. The Evils of Cochineal, Tlaxcala, Mexico (1553). 14. The Indian Pueblo of Texupa in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (1579). 15. Fray Juan Izquierdo's Letter and Report to Charles V, Barcelona, Spain (1552). 16. Alonso Ortiz's Letter to His Wife, Mexico City (1574?). 17. Jeronimo de Benarcama's Letter to Francisco de Borja, Granada, Spain (1566). 18. Jose de Acosta on the Salvation of the Indians (1588). 19. Miguel Hernandez, Master of Mule Trains / John C. Super. 20. Two Images from the Codex Osuna, Mexico City (1565). 21. Two Images from the Codex Sierra, Oaxaca, Mexico (1555, 1561). 22. Fray Diego Valades's Ideal Atrio and Its Activities (1579). 23. The Huejotzingo Altarpiece, Mexico (1586). 24. Thomas B. F. Cummins and William B. Taylor: The Mulatto Gentlemen of Esmeraldas, Ecuador -- Pt. III. Spanish American Baroque in a Long Seventeenth Century.
• 25. Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's Appeal Concerning the Priests, Peru (ca. 1615). 26. Pedro de Leon Portocarrero's Description of Lima, Peru (early seventeenth century). 27. The Church and Monastery of San Francisco, Lima, Peru (1673). 28. Beatriz de Padilla, Mulatta Mistress and Mother / Solange Alberro. 29. Fruits of the Faith in the Seventeenth Century / Mariano Cuevas. 30. Santa Rosa of Lima According to a Pious Accountant (1617). 31. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz's Letter to Sor Filotea (1691). 32. Portraits of Santa Rosa and Sor Juana. 33. Mutilated Memory: Reconstruction of the Past and the Mechanisms of Memory among Seventeenth-Century Otomis / Serge Gruzinski. 34. Francisco de Avila's Christmas Eve Sermon (1646). 35. The Witness Francisco Poma y Altas Caldeas of San Pedro de Acas, Cajatambo, Peru (1657). 36. Crossing and Dome of the Rosary Chapel, Church of Santo Domingo, Puebla, Mexico (1632-1690).
• 37. Two Paintings of a Corpus Christi Procession in Cusco, Peru (ca. 1674-1680) -- Pt. IV. Bourbon Rules and American Practices in a Short Eighteenth Century. 38. Nicolas Nenguiru's Letter to the Governor of Buenos Aires (1753). 39. Jose de Galvez's Decrees for the King's Subjects in Mexico (1769, 1778). 40. The Foundation of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe de los Morenos de Amapa, Mexico (1769). 41. Concolorcorvo Engages the Postal Inspector about Indian Affairs, Lima, Peru (1776). 42. Parish Priests and Indian Resistance in Late Colonial Mexico / William B. Taylor. 43. Taxonomy of a Colonial "Riot" The Arequipa Disturbances of 1780 / David Cahill. 44. Juan Francisco Dominguez's Discourses on the Ten Commandments, Mexico (1805). 45. Two Castas Paintings from Eighteenth-Century Mexico. 46. Late Eighteenth-Century Inscriptions on Fountains and Monuments in Mexico City. 47. Tupac Amaru I, Remembered (eighteenth century). 48. "America Nursing Spanish Noble Boys," Peru (ca. 1770s).
• 49. Jose Maria Morelos's "Sentiments of the Nation," Chilpancingo, Mexico (1813). 50. The Argentine Declaration of Independence, San Miguel de Tucuman (1816).

ISBN

• 0842025723 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0842025731 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

97044250

OCLC

• 38081427
• ocm38081427

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries