University of Nebraska Press, 2019. — 330 p. The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century breaks new ground in articulating the early Spanish Caribbean as a distinct and diverse group of colonies loosely united under Spanish rule for roughly a century prior to the establishment of other European colonies. In the sixteenth century no part of the...
University of Nebraska Press, 2019. — 330 p. The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century breaks new ground in articulating the early Spanish Caribbean as a distinct and diverse group of colonies loosely united under Spanish rule for roughly a century prior to the establishment of other European colonies. In the sixteenth century no part of the...
University of California Press, 1989. — 315 p. The opening of the New World to Spanish settlement had more than the limited impact on individuals and society which scholars have traditionally granted it. Many families and young single people left the neighboring cities of Cáceres and Trujillo in the Extremadura region of southwestern Spain for the Indies. By maintaining ties...
LSU Press, 2021. — 401 p. The half century of European activity in the Caribbean that followed Columbus’s first voyages brought enormous demographic, economic, and social change to the region as Europeans, Indigenous people, and Africans whom Spaniards imported to provide skilled and unskilled labor came into extended contact for the first time. In Life and Society in the Early...
CLACSO, 2022. — 380 p. En 2021 se cumplieron 500 años de la caída de México-Tenochtitlan, hito que marca, en el discurso histórico, artístico, literario, social, la conquista del centro de México. Este libro se inserta en el debate abierto por las conmemoraciones y las disputas críticas que se han venido desplegando internacionalmente desde mediados de la década pasada, y lo...
University Press of Florida, 2017. — 447 p. Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (1519–1574) founded St. Augustine in 1565. His expedition was documented by his brother-in-law, Gonzalo Solís de Merás, who left a detailed and passionate account of the events leading to the establishment of America’s oldest city. Until recently, the only extant version of Solís de Merás’s record was one...
University Press of Florida, 2016. — 400 p. Built in 1566 by Spanish conquistador Juan Pardo, Fort San Juan is the earliest known European settlement in the interior United States. Located at the Berry site in western North Carolina, the fort and its associated domestic compound stood near the Native American town of Joara, whose residents sacked the fort and burned the...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 212 p. Tetzcoco was one of the most important cities of the pre-Hispanic Aztec Empire. When the Spaniards arrived in 1519, the indigenous hereditary nobles that governed Tetzcoco faced both opportunities and challenges, and were forced to adapt from the very moment of contact. This book examines how the city's nobility navigated this...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. — 295 p. Following the creation of the viceroyalty of Río de la Plata in 1776, the elites of Buenos Aires, Córdoba, and Montevideo turned time and again to the Spanish crown for intercession, mediation, and support to maintain their privileged position during the tumultuous years before the May Revolution of 1810. Their loyalty was in part...
Foreword by John L. Kessell. — University of New Mexico Press, 1971. — 512 p. Herbert Eugene Bolton's classic of southwestern history, first published in 1949, delivers the epic account of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado's sixteenth-century entrada to the North American frontier of the Spanish Empire. Leaving Mexico City in 1540 with some three hundred Spaniards and a large body...
Stanford University Press, 1974. — 439 p. From a vast array of documentation, from both Iberian and Peruvian archives, Bowser has produced a monumentally detailed study of blacks in early colonial Peru. Methodically and convincingly he develops his narrative. The labor problems faced by the Spanish colonizers of Peru resulted in the growth and development of first the Atlantic...
University of Texas Press, 1981. — 382 p. Victoria Bricker shows that "history" sometimes rests on mythological foundations and that "myth" can contain valid historical information. Her book, which is a highly original critique of postconquest historiography about the Maya, challenges major assumptions about the relationship between myth and history implicit in structuralist...
University Press of Colorado, 2007. — 256 p. Invasion and Transformation examines the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and transformations in political, social, cultural, and religious life in Mexico during the Conquest and the ensuing colonial period. In particular, contributors consider the ways in which the Conquest itself was remembered, both in its immediate aftermath...
10th Edition. — Oxford University Press, 2019. — 432 p. The tenth edition of Colonial Latin America provides a concise study of the history of the Iberian colonies in the New World and their preconquest background to the wars of independence in the early nineteenth century. Colonial Latin America is indispensable for students who wish to gain a deeper understanding of the...
8th Edition. — Oxford University Press, 2012. — 448 p. Colonial Latin America examines the history of the Iberian colonies in the New World from their preconquest background to the wars of independence in the early nineteenth century. Updated and expanded, the eighth edition of Colonial Latin America is indispensable for students who wish to gain a deeper understanding of the...
8th Edition. — Oxford University Press, 2012. — 448 p. Colonial Latin America examines the history of the Iberian colonies in the New World from their preconquest background to the wars of independence in the early nineteenth century. Updated and expanded, the eighth edition of Colonial Latin America is indispensable for students who wish to gain a deeper understanding of the...
University of Regina Press, 2017. — 208 p. A group of shipwrecked Spaniards washed onto the coast of the Yucatàn Peninsula in 1512, leading to first contact between the Spanish and the Maya. Two men survived the ordeal: Jerónimo de Aguilar, who became a translator for Hernàn Cortés in his conquest of the Aztecs, and Gonzalo Guerrero, who, as legend has it, embraced the Mayan...
University of Regina Press, 2017. — 317 p. — ISBN 978-0-88977-510-7 A group of shipwrecked Spaniards washed onto the coast of the Yucatàn Peninsula in 1512, leading to first contact between the Spanish and the Maya. Two men survived the ordeal: Jerónimo de Aguilar, who became a translator for Hernàn Cortés in his conquest of the Aztecs, and Gonzalo Guerrero, who, as legend has...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 325 p. This book examines the efforts of Spaniards and Portuguese to attract Native peoples and other settlers to the villages, missions, and fortifications they installed in a disputed area between present-day Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay. The first part examines how autonomous Native peoples and those who lived in the Jesuit missions responded to...
2nd Revised Edition — University of Texas Press, 2010. — 388 p. Modern Texas, like Mexico, traces its beginning to sixteenth-century encounters between Europeans and Indians who contested control over a vast land. Unlike Mexico, however, Texas eventually received the stamp of Anglo-American culture, so that Spanish contributions to present-day Texas tend to be obscured or even...
University of Utah Press, 2015. — 292 p. Native Wills from the Colonial Americas showcases new testamentary sources from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. It provides readers with translations and analyses of wills written in Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya, K’iche’ Maya, Mixtec, and Wampanoag. Divided into three thematic sections, the book provides insights and details...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 206 p. After Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas is the single most important figure in the period known as the Encounter, a time of intensive conflict between Europeans and the people of the Americas following Columbus’s voyages. In this book, Clayton provides a short history of the age of exploration and the conquest of the Americas told through...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 372 p. The Coming of the Kingdom explores the experiences of the Indigenous Muisca peoples of the New Kingdom of Granada (Colombia) during the first century of Spanish colonial rule. Focusing on colonialism, religious reform, law, language, and historical writing, Juan F. Cobo Betancourt examines the introduction and development of...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. — 272 p. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Spanish authorities restricted emigration to the Americas to those who could prove they had been Catholic for at least three generations. In doing so, they hoped to instill religious orthodoxy in the colonies and believed Muslim converts, or Moriscos, would hamper efforts to convert...
Nuremberg, Fridericum Peypus, 1520. – 118 p. В период между июлем 1519 года и сентябрем 1526 года солдат и авантюрист Эрнандо Кортес (1484-1547 гг.), который в 1519-1521 годах завоевал для Испании то, что ныне является центральной и южной Мексикой, отправил императору Карлу V пять длинных писем, в которых описал свои подвиги и представил себя и свои деяния в благоприятном...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. — 336 p. In the eighteenth century, malaria was a prevalent and deadly disease, and the only effective treatment was found in the Andean forests of Spanish America: a medicinal bark harvested from cinchona trees that would later give rise to the antimalarial drug quinine. In 1751, the Spanish Crown asserted control over the production and...
Texas A&M University Press, 2019. — 288 p. To the Vast and Beautiful Land gathers eleven essays written by Light Townsend Cummins, a foremost authority on Texas and Louisiana during the Spanish colonial era, and traces the arc of the author’s career over a quarter of a century. Each essay includes a new introduction linking the original article to current scholarship and forms...
University of Texas Press, 1984. — 248 p. In 1540 a small number of Spaniards founded the city of Arequipa in southwestern Peru. These colonists, later immigrants, and their descendants devoted considerable energy to exploiting the surrounding area. At first, like many other Spaniards in the Americas, they relied primarily on Indian producers; by the late 1500s they had...
University of New Mexico Press, 2009. — 473 p. The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a new abridgement of Diaz del Castillo's classic Historia verdadera de la conquista de Nueva Espana, offers a unique contribution to our understanding of the political and religious forces that drove the great cultural encounter between Spain and the Americas...
University of Texas Press, 2018. — 228 p. Some sixty years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico, a group of Nahua intellectuals in Mexico City set about compiling an extensive book of miscellanea, which was recorded in pictorial form with alphabetic texts in Nahuatl clarifying some imagery or adding new information altogether. This manuscript, known as the Codex Mexicanus,...
University of Texas Press, 2008. — 186 p. Created in Tepechpan, a relatively minor Aztec city in Central Mexico, the Tira de Tepechpan records important events in the city's history from 1298 through 1596. Most of the history is presented pictographically. A line of indigenous year signs runs the length of the Tira, with images above the line depicting events in Tepechpan and...
University Press of Florida, 2012. — 360 p. War on the Gulf Coast is one of the first books about the Spanish period in West Florida (1797–1805) written from the Spanish point of view. Using Spanish archival sources, Gilbert Din is able to shed new light on the machinations of William Augustus Bowles, an adventurer who sought to introduce goods, subvert the Creek Indians, and...
University Press of Colorado, 2018. — 452 p. Focusing on the two major areas of the Southwest that witnessed the most intensive and sustained colonial encounters, New Mexico and the Pimería Alta compares how different forms of colonialism and indigenous political economies resulted in diverse outcomes for colonists and Native peoples. Taking a holistic approach and studying...
University Press of Colorado, 2018. — 452 p. Focusing on the two major areas of the Southwest that witnessed the most intensive and sustained colonial encounters, New Mexico and the Pimería Alta compares how different forms of colonialism and indigenous political economies resulted in diverse outcomes for colonists and Native peoples. Taking a holistic approach and studying...
University Press of Colorado, 2010. — 320 p. Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the "lettered city" as a privileged space populated solely by colonial...
University Press of Colorado, 2007. — 310 p. Politics, Economy, and Society in Bourbon Central America, 1759-1821 examines how the Spanish policies known broadly as the Bourbon Reforms affected Central American social, economic, and political institutions. Although historians have devoted significant attention to the purpose and impact of these reforms in Spain and some of...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 282 p. This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation and the bodily experience of eating. It reveals the importance of food to the colonial project in Spanish America and reconceptualises the role of European colonial expansion in shaping the emergence of ideas of race during the Age of Discovery....
University of New Mexico Press, 2015. — 448 p. Struggles over land and water have determined much of New Mexico’s long history. The outcome of such disputes, especially in colonial times, often depended on which party had a strong advocate to argue a case before a local tribunal or on appeal. This book is partly about the advocates who represented the parties to these disputes,...
Brill, 2017. — xiv, 326 p. — (Early American History Series, Volume: 6). Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso’s The Spanish Monarchy and the Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717-1739) argues that the pace and character of the most salient Bourbon reform introduced in Spanish America in the early eighteenth century were determined by relations between New Granadan elites and...
Brill, 2013. — 254 p. — (Early American History Series, Volume: 1). The years between the accession of the house of Bourbon to the Spanish throne in 1700 and the coronation of Carlos III in 1759 have often been bundled up, and dismissed, together with the later years of Habsburg rule. Growing out of the first Anglophone academic workshop to focus exclusively on Early Bourbon...
Brill, 2019. — 542 p. — (Brill's Companions to the Americas 2). A Companion to Early Modern Lima introduces readers to the Spanish American city which became a vibrant urban center in the sixteenth-century world. As part of Brill's Companions to the Americas series, this volume presents current interdisciplinary research focused on the Peruvian viceregal capital. From ancient...
University of North Carolina Press, 2020. — 280 p. During the late eighteenth century, Portugal and Spain sent joint mapping expeditions to draw a nearly 10,000-mile border between Brazil and Spanish South America. These boundary commissions were the largest ever sent to the Americas and coincided with broader imperial reforms enacted throughout the hemisphere. Where Caciques...
University of North Carolina Press, 2020. — 280 p. During the late eighteenth century, Portugal and Spain sent joint mapping expeditions to draw a nearly 10,000-mile border between Brazil and Spanish South America. These boundary commissions were the largest ever sent to the Americas and coincided with broader imperial reforms enacted throughout the hemisphere. Where Caciques...
University of New Mexico Press, 2019. — 464 p. This magisterial volume unveils Richard and Shirley Flint's deep research into the Latin American and Spanish archives in an effort to track down the history of the participants who came north with the Coronado Expedition in 1540. Through their investigation into thousands of baptismal records, proofs of service, letters, journals,...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019. — 576 p. Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte , the nation has much older Spanish roots - ones that have long...
University of Utah Press, 2005. — 238 p. A contemporary observer of the four-year Tepehuan Indian revolt in a northern province of New Spain described it as "one of the greatest outbreaks of disorder, upheaval, and destruction that had been seen in New Spain since the Conquest". In The Tepehuan Revolt of 1616, Charlotte Gradie presents the uprising as a pivotal test of both the...
Leiden, Nederland: Brill, 2019. — xxii, 399 p. — (The Early Americas: History and Culture 9). Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas brings together 15 case studies focusing on the early colonial history and archaeology of indigenous cultural persistence and change in the Caribbean and its surrounding mainland(s) after AD 1492. With a...
University of Texas Press, 2006. — 345 p. Early Andean historiography reveals a subaltern history of indigenous gender and sexuality that saw masculinity and femininity not as essential absolutes. Third-gender ritualists, Ipas, mediated between the masculine and feminine spheres of culture in important ceremonies and were recorded in fragments of myths and transcribed oral...
University Alabama Press, 2005. — 356 p. — (With an Introduction by Paul Hoffman and Afterword by David G. Moore, Robin A. Beck Jr., Christopher B. Rodning). This volume mines the Pardo documents to reveal a wealth of information pertaining to Pardo’s routes, his encounters and interactions with native peoples, the social, hierarchical, and political structures of the Indians,...
Brill, 2017. — viii, 324 p. — (Studies in Christian Mission 51). The Jesuit Missions of Paraguay and a Cultural History of Utopia (1568–1789) explores the religious foundations of the Jesuit missions in Paraguay, and the discussion of the missionary experience in the public opinion of early modern Europe, from Montaigne to Diderot. This book presents a wealth of documentation...
Greenwood, 2011. — 260 p. This book offers an examination of everyday life in the Iberian colonies of Central and South America―the indigenous peoples, their Spanish and Portuguese colonizers, and the Africans brought over as slaves. • Chronology of key developments in Latin American history, from the European arrival in 1492 to the independence period in the early 19th century...
LSU Press, 2020. — 298 p. — ISBN13 9780807173947. — ISBN10 0807173940. Constructing the Spanish Empire in Havana examines the political economy surrounding the use of enslaved laborers in the capital of Spanish imperial Cuba from 1762 to 1835. In this first book-length exploration of state slavery on the island, Evelyn P. Jennings demonstrates that the Spanish state’s policies...
Brill, 2019. — xvi, 322 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 292/33; Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 292/33). Holy Organ or Unholy Idol? focuses on the significance of the cult of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and its accompanying imagery in eighteenth-century New Spain. Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank considers paintings, prints, devotional texts,...
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. — 199 p. A note about the terms ‘‘town council,’’ ‘‘stores,’’ and ‘‘shops’’. The Colonial City by Definition and Origin. The Pre-Columbian City. The Colonial City Ordained and Structured. The Administration of the Colonial City. The City Visualized. The colonial Spanish-American city. The Urban Economy. Urban Society. Caste and Class in...
Pennsylvania State Univ Press, 2001. — 236 p. Combining social history with literary criticism, James Krippner-Martínez shows how a historiographically sensitive rereading of contemporaneous documents concerning the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest and evangelization of Michoacán, and of later writings using them, can challenge traditional celebratory interpretations of...
Duke University Press, 2008. — 304 p. Offering an alternative narrative of the conquest of the Incas, Gonzalo Lamana both examines and shifts away from the colonial imprint that still permeates most accounts of the conquest. Lamana focuses on a key moment of transition: the years that bridged the first contact between Spanish conquistadores and Andean peoples in 1531 and the...
University of Notre Dame Press, 2020. — 300 p. The Spanish conquest has long been a source of polemic, ever since the early sixteenth century when Spanish jurists began theorizing the legal merits behind native dispossession in the Americas. But in The Business of Conquest: Empire, Love, and Law in the Atlantic World, Nicole D. Legnani demonstrates how the financing and...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. — 320 p. Long before the Spanish colonizers established it in 1598, the “Kingdom of Nuevo México” had existed as an imaginary world―and not the one based on European medieval legend so often said to have driven the Spaniards’ ambitions in the New World. What the conquistadors sought in the 1500s, it seems, was what the native Mesoamerican...
Potomac Books, 2007. — 368 p. In 1674, it is three years since Henry Morgan’s pirates sacked Panama. England is now at peace with Spain, and soon France, Holland, and Spain will briefly be at peace among themselves. But soon buccaneers and their French counterparts, the filibusters, will seize the opportunity of material gain presented by the far-flung and failing Spanish...
University of Wisconsin Press, 1994. — 320 p. When Spanish Peru, 1532–1560 was published in 1968, it was acclaimed as an innovative study of the early Spanish presence in Peru. It has since become a classic of the literature in Spanish American social history, important in helping to introduce career-pattern history to the field and notable for its broad yet intimate picture of...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. — 280 p. In their efforts to convert indigenous peoples, Franciscan friars brought the Spanish Inquisition to early-sixteenth-century Mexico. Patricia Lopes Don now investigates these trials to offer an inside look at this brief but consequential episode of Spanish methods of colonization, providing a fresh interpretation of an early period that...
Brill, 2021. — 524 p. — (Brill's Companions to the Americas 3). This book presents a historical overview of colonial Mexico City and the important role it played in the creation of the early modern Hispanic world. Organized into five sections, an interdisciplinary and international team of twenty scholars scrutinize the nature and character of Mexico City through the study of...
Brill, 2017. — 355 p. — (The Atlantic World 35). In 'Another Jerusalem': Political Legitimacy and Courtly Government in the Kingdom of New Spain (1535-1568) José-Juan López-Portillo offers a new approach to understanding the origins of viceregal political authority in New Spain.
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. — 272 p. Described in his lifetime as "mad", "a dreamer", "quixotic", and "a lunatic", Pedro Bohorques is one of the most fascinating personalities of Spanish colonial America. A common man from an ordinary Andalusian family, he sought his fortune in the new world as a Renaissance adventurer. Smitten with the idea of the mythical cities of...
Routledge, 2019. — 190 p. Research on the Central American colonial experience - long overshadowed by the scholarly focus on Mexico and Peru - has begun to blossom, greatly expanding our knowledge of land and life in the region under Spanish rule. The first bibliography of its kind, Demography and Empire offers a comprehensive survey of recent literature in Spanish and in...
Llumina Press, 2002. — 258 p. The Early Immigrants European Backgrounds The Conquest The Spanish Colonial System Society and Culture Colonial Brazil Late Colonial Change Independence Epilogue Select Bibliography
Duke University Press Books, 2008. — 368 p. Sometimes referred to as the first published manual of guerrilla warfare, Bernardo de Vargas Machuca’s Indian Militia and Description of the Indies is actually the first known manual of counterinsurgency, or anti-guerrilla warfare. Published in Madrid in 1599 by a Spanish-born soldier of fortune with long experience in the Americas,...
University of Texas Press, 2007. — 616 p. The seventeenth century has been characterized as "Latin America's forgotten century." This landmark work, originally published in 1973, attempted to fill the vacuum in knowledge by providing an account of the first great colonial cycle in Spanish Central America. The colonial Spanish society of the sixteenth century was very different...
Routledge, 2021. — 327 p. Ranging geographically from Tierra del Fuego to California and the Caribbean, and historically from early European sightings and the utopian projects of would-be colonizers to the present-day cultural politics of migrant communities and international relations, this volume presents a rich variety of case studies and scholarly perspectives on the...
University of North Carolina Press, 2012. — 318 p. Indigenous allies helped the Spanish gain a foothold in the Americas. What did these Indian conquistadors expect from the partnership, and what were the implications of their involvement in Spain's New World empire? Laura Matthew's study of Ciudad Vieja, Guatemala--the first study to focus on a single allied colony over the...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 324 p. Nearly 4,000 Mexican troops and convicts landed in Manila Bay in the Philippines from 1765 to 1811. The majority were veterans and recruits; the rest were victims of vagrancy campaigns. Eva Maria Mehl follows these forced exiles from recruiting centers, jails and streets in central Mexico to Spanish outposts in the Philippines, and...
Routledge, 2019. — 297 p. This book describes the established pattern of regional studies of colonial Spanish America with a study of the social history of colonial city Quito rooted in the experience of its lower strata. It shows what the James Orton described as a colonial history "as lifeless as the history of Sahara".
Routledge, 2019. — 296 p. This book describes the established pattern of regional studies of colonial Spanish America with a study of the social history of colonial Quito rooted in the experience of its lower strata. It shows what the James Orton described as a colonial history "as lifeless as the history of Sahara".
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. — 256 p. Juan de Solorzano Pereira (1575-1654) was a lawyer who spent eighteen years as a judge in Peru before returning to Spain to serve on the Councils of Castile and of the Indies. Considered one of the finest lawyers in Spain, his work, De Indiarum Jure, was the most sophisticated defense of the Spanish conquest of the Americas ever...
Heritage House Publishing, 2014. — 144 p. They endured the torments of scurvy and the vagaries of deep fogs, adverse winds, and contrary currents. They suffered through appalling quarters and rotting food. They spent years away from their homes and families, never knowing whether they would return. Their orders from Spain might well arrive long after they were needed, six months...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2021. — 344 p. The term cacica was a Spanish linguistic invention, a female counterpart to caciques , the Arawak word for male indigenous leaders in Spanish America. But the term’s meaning was adapted and manipulated by natives, creating a new social stratum where it previously may not have existed. This book explores that transformation, a...
University Press of Colorado, 2018. — 368 p. Dialogue with Europe, Dialogue with the Past is a critical, annotated anthology of indigenous-authored texts, including the Nahua, Quechua, and Spanish originals, through which native peoples and Spaniards were able to convey their own perspectives on Spanish colonial order. It is the first volume to bring together native testimonies...
Brill, 2019. — 505 p. — (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 189). Bartolomé de las Casas, O.P.: History, Philosophy, and Theology in the Age of European Expansion marks a critical point in Lascasian scholarship. The result of the collaborative work of seventeen prominent scholars, contributions span the fields of history, Latin American studies, literary criticism,...
Routledge, 2002. — 270 p. Records of revolts, rebellions, and revolutions provide insight into the nature of the Maya in the colonial period. This book presents five case studies - four in Guatemala and one in Yucatan, Mexico - of eighteenth-century Maya acts of violent resistance to colonialism, and, in the process, reveals a great deal about indigenous culture, social structure,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 277 p. Integrating the political and governmental histories of Spain and the American colonies, this book focuses on the political and governmental history of the Viceroyalty of Peru during the 'early Bourbon' period and provides a new interpretation of the period's broader significance within Spanish American history.
Translated and edited by Roland Hamilton. — University of Texas Press, 2009. — 400 p. One of the most fascinating books on pre-Columbian and early colonial Peru was written by a Peruvian Indian named Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. This book, The First New Chronicle and Good Government, covers pre-Inca times, various aspects of Inca culture, the Spanish conquest, and colonial...
University of New Mexico Press, 2005. — 239 p. The evidence of women in the Americas is conspicuously absent from most historical syntheses of the Spanish invasion and early colonization of the New World. Karen Powers's ethnohistoric account is the first to focus on non-military incidents during this transformative period. As she shows, native women's lives were changed...
Routledge, 2021. — 168 p. A History of Colonial Latin America from First Encounters to Independence is a concise and accessible volume that presents the history of the Iberian presence in the Americas, from the era of exploration and conquest to the disruption and instability following independence. This history of the Iberian presence in the Americas contains stories of...
Routledge, 2021. — 168 p. A History of Colonial Latin America from First Encounters to Independence is a concise and accessible volume that presents the history of the Iberian presence in the Americas, from the era of exploration and conquest to the disruption and instability following independence. This history of the Iberian presence in the Americas contains stories of...
Duke University Press, 2014. — 344 p. Via military conquest, Catholic evangelization, and intercultural engagement and struggle, a vast array of knowledge circulated through the Spanish viceroyalties in Mexico and the Andes. This collection highlights the critical role that indigenous intellectuals played in this cultural ferment. Scholars of history, anthropology, literature,...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 304 p. Few milestones in human history are as dramatic and momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. Latin America in Colonial Times presents that story in an engaging but scholarly new package, revealing how a new civilization - Latin America - emerged from that encounter. The authors...
De Gruyter, 2021. — 326 p. This book investigates the phenomenon of slavery and other forms of servitude experienced by people of African or indigenous origin who were taken captive and then subjected to forced labor in Charcas (Bolivia) in the 16th and 17th centuries. Paola A. Revilla Orías , University of Chile and EHESS, Paris.
De Gruyter, 2021. — 326 p. This book investigates the phenomenon of slavery and other forms of servitude experienced by people of African or indigenous origin who were taken captive and then subjected to forced labor in Charcas (Bolivia) in the 16th and 17th centuries. Paola A. Revilla Orías , University of Chile and EHESS, Paris.
Indiana University Press, 2011. — 298 p. On the basis of an examination of the colonial mercury and silver production processes and related labor systems, Mercury, Mining, and Empire explores the effects of mercury pollution in colonial Huancavelica, Peru, and Potosí, in present-day Bolivia. The book presents a multifaceted and interwoven tale of what colonial exploitation of...
Louisiana State University Press, 2021. — 256 p. John Eugene Rodriguezs Spanish New Orleans is the first comprehensive academic analysis of how Spain governed the largest imperial city in its North American empire. Rodriguez suggests that the Spanish empire was, at least on the northern edge, slipping into economic and perhaps political independence a decade before the...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 344 p. How to Make a New Spain presents an unprecedented view of the material worlds of Mexico City in the sixteenth century, drawing from a combination of sources and methodologies. It presents the author's original analysis of over 11,000 items in the probate inventories of thirty-nine Spanish colonizers. It also synthesizes information from...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 344 p. How to Make a New Spain presents an unprecedented view of the material worlds of Mexico City in the sixteenth century, drawing from a combination of sources and methodologies. It presents the author's original analysis of over 11,000 items in the probate inventories of thirty-nine Spanish colonizers. It also synthesizes information from...
Brill, 2022. — xxii, 524 p. — (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 198). The Transatlantic Las Casas demonstrates the vitality of Lascasian studies. An impressive ensemble of scholars spanning the fields of Latin American studies, philosophy, theology, anthropology, law, literary criticism, and ethnohistory illuminate the complex intellectual web surrounding the...
University Press of Colorado, 2021. — 334 p. In Pueblos, Plains, and Province Joseph P. Sánchez offers an in-depth examination of sociopolitical conflict in seventeenth-century New Mexico, detailing the effects of Spanish colonial policies on settlers’, missionaries’, and Indigenous peoples’ struggle for economic and cultural control of the region. Sánchez explores the rich...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. — 304 p. Established in Peru in 1570, the Holy Office of the Inquisition operated there until 1820, prosecuting, torturing, and sentencing alleged heretics. Ana Schaposchnik offers a deeply researched history of the Inquisition's tribunal in the capital city of Lima, with a focus on cases of crypto-Judaism—the secret adherence to Judaism...
Yale University Press, 2008. — 352 p. — ISBN: 0300125801, 9780300125801, 0300158548, 9780300158540. It would seem unlikely that one could discover tolerant religious attitudes in Spain, Portugal, and the New World colonies during the era of the Inquisition, when enforcement of Catholic orthodoxy was widespread and brutal. Yet this groundbreaking book does exactly that. Drawing...
University of Texas Press, 2017. — 240 p. Chocolate and sugar, alcohol and tobacco, peyote and hallucinogenic mushrooms—these seductive substances have been a nexus of desire for both pleasure and profit in Mesoamerica since colonial times. But how did these substances seduce? And when and how did they come to be desired and then demanded, even by those who had never...
Stanford University Press, 2013. — 280 p. The Spanish Empire is famous for being, at its height, the realm upon which "the sun never set." It stretched from the Philippines to Europe by way of the Americas. And yet we know relatively little about how Spain managed to move that crucial currency of governance―paper―over such enormous distances. Moreover, we know even less about...
University Press of Florida, 2014. — 440 p. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, much of what is now the western United States was known as Alta California, a distant corner of New Spain. The presidios, missions, and pueblos of the region have yielded a rich trove of ceramics materials, though they have been sparsely analyzed in the literature. Ceramic Production in...
Stanford University Press, 2017. — 424 p. This book is an ambitious and wide-ranging social and cultural history of gender relations among indigenous peoples of New Spain, from the Spanish conquest through the first half of the eighteenth century. In this expansive account, Lisa Sousa focuses on four native groups in highland Mexico - the Nahua, Mixtec, Zapotec, and Mixe - and...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. — 288 p. Captives of Conquest is one of the first books to examine the earliest indigenous slave trade in the Spanish Caribbean. Erin Woodruff Stone shows that the indigenous population of the region did not simply collapse from disease or warfare. Rather, upwards of 250,000 people were removed through slavery, a lucrative business...
Harper and Row, 1984. — 274 p. A classic in its field, The Conquest of America is a study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America. The book offers an original interpretation of both Columbus's discovery of America and the Spaniards' subsequent conquest, colonization, and destruction of pre-Columbian cultures in Mexico...
University of Arizona Press, 2021. — 328 p. Alluvium and Empire uncovers the stories of Indigenous people who were subject to one of the largest waves of forced resettlement in human history, the Reducción General. In 1569, Spanish administrators attempted to move at least 1.4 million Indigenous people into a series of planned towns called reducciones, with the goal of...
Harvester Press, 1977. — 359 p. The Dance of the Conquest. The Structure of the Inca State. Déstructuration. Tradition and Acculturation. Revolts and Millenarianism. War and Acculturation. Sources for the Demography of Peru. Notes. Tables. Figures. Index of Names. Subject Index.
Yale University Press, 1992. — 705 p. In 1513, when Ponce de Leon stepped ashore on a beach of what is now Florida, Spain gained its first foothold in North America. For the next 300 years, Spaniards ranged through the continent building forts, missions and farms, ranches and towns to reconstruct the Iberian world. This illustrated book presents an overview of the Spanish...
Texas University Press, 2000. — 456 p. Almost five hundred years ago an obscure Spanish sailor aboard the Pinta spotted the outlines of an unknown land rising above the western horizon. From that moment Spain embarked upon an age of discovery, exploration, and conquest of the New World virtually unchallenged until the coming of the French in 1685. Not until sixteen years after...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. — 212 p. Columbus arrived on North American shores in 1492, and Cortés had replaced Moctezuma, the Aztec Nahua emperor, as the major figurehead in central Mexico by 1521. Five centuries later, the convergence of "old" and "new" worlds and the consequences of colonization continue to fascinate and horrify us. In Transcending Conquest ,...
Duke University Press, 2008. — 320 p. In The Art of Being In-between Yanna Yannakakis rethinks processes of cultural change and indigenous resistance and accommodation to colonial rule through a focus on the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, a rugged, mountainous, ethnically diverse, and overwhelmingly indigenous region of colonial Mexico. Her rich social and cultural history tells the...
Springer, 2019. — 228 p. Anthropological histories and historical geographies of colonialism both have examined the material and discursive processes of colonization and have identified the opportunities for different kinds of relationships to emerge between Europeans and the indigenous people they encountered and in different ways colonized. These studies have revealed...
Монография. — Донецк, 2006. — 231 с.: ил. — ISBN: 978-966-639-298-8. Монография посвящена реформам испанского короля Карла III в XVIII веке. При поддержке образованных людей, сторонников реформирования страны, монарх осуществил глубокие реформы в административной, политической, социально-экономической и военной структурах Испании и американских колоний, которые нанесли...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2004. — 240 с. Книга Петера Герхарда рассказывает о причинах и истории возникновения пиратства. В Карибском море на рубеже XVI-XVII веков развернулась самая настоящая борьба за несметные сокровища, которые вывозили из американской колонии испанские галеоны. Многие мирные английские, французские, а затем и голландские торговцы стали морскими разбойниками. Они...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2004. — 240 с. Книга Петера Герхарда рассказывает о причинах и истории возникновения пиратства. В Карибском море на рубеже XVI-XVII веков развернулась самая настоящая борьба за несметные сокровища, которые вывозили из американской колонии испанские галеоны. Многие мирные английские, французские, а затем и голландские торговцы стали морскими разбойниками. Они...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2004. — 239 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-0838-9. Книга Петера Герхарда рассказывает о причинах и истории возникновения пиратства. В Карибском море на рубеже XVI-XVII веков развернулась самая настоящая борьба за несметные сокровища, которые вывозили из американской колонии испанские галеоны. Многие мирные английские, французские, а затем и голландские торговцы стали...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2004. — 239 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-0838-9. Книга Петера Герхарда рассказывает о причинах и истории возникновения пиратства. В Карибском море на рубеже XVI-XVII веков развернулась самая настоящая борьба за несметные сокровища, которые вывозили из американской колонии испанские галеоны. Многие мирные английские, французские, а затем и голландские торговцы стали...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2004. — 240 с. — ISBN: 5-9524-0838-9, 978-5-9524-0838-8 Книга Петера Герхарда рассказывает о причинах и истории возникновения пиратства. В Карибском море на рубеже XVI-XVII веков развернулась самая настоящая борьба за несметные сокровища, которые вывозили из американской колонии испанские галеоны. Многие мирные английские, французские, а затем и голландские...
Международные отношения, 1991. — 228 с. — ISBN: 5-7133-0504-Х. "Три каравеллы на горизонте" - книга эссе-размышлений. Это диалог обществоведов, писателей, теологов, представителей гуманитарного знания, которые, заглядывая в прошлое из будущего и настоящего, отвечают на вопросы: что привез с собой Колумб в Новый Свет? Что означало его плавание для Европы? Какое значение оно...
Международные отношения, 1991. — 228 с. — ISBN: 5-7133-0504-Х. "Три каравеллы на горизонте" - книга эссе-размышлений. Это диалог обществоведов, писателей, теологов, представителей гуманитарного знания, которые, заглядывая в прошлое из будущего и настоящего, отвечают на вопросы: что привез с собой Колумб в Новый Свет? Что означало его плавание для Европы? Какое значение оно...
СПб.: Крига, 2017. — 1034 с. Работа А. Кофмана "Под покровительством Сантьяго" — это первая книга на русском языке, воссоздающая историю испанского завоевания Америки. Эта книга пытается дать ответ на вопрос, как испанцы смогли в столь краткие сроки и столь малыми силами исследовать огромные территории двух материков и покорить высокоразвитые народы. Сами конкистадоры объясняли...
М.: Вече, 2015. — 336 с.: ил. — (Гиды цивилизаций). Название "Испанская Америка" относительно недавнее. В XVI и XVII вв. эти земли назывались "Западными Индиями" или просто "Индиями". Первоначально они были группой "новых королевств", обладавших такими же правами, что и европейские королевства. Их сувереном являлся король Индий — он же король Испании. Важно то, что для...
М.: Вече, 2015. — 336 с.: ил. — (Гиды цивилизаций). — ISBN: 978-5-4444-3736-0. Название "Испанская Америка" относительно недавнее. В XVI и XVII вв. эти земли назывались "Западными Индиями" или просто "Индиями". Первоначально они были группой "новых королевств", обладавших такими же правами, что и европейские королевства. Их сувереном являлся король Индий — он же король Испании....
Монография. — М.—Л.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1946. — 156 с. Предисловие Введение. Испанская Америка (1492—1810 гг.) Освободительное движение до 1780 г Революционный кризис (1780—1782 гг,) Испано-американские сепаратисты в поисках иностранной поддержки (1783—1789 гг.) Буржуазная революция во Франции и освободительное движение в Испанской Америке Испано-американские...
Академия наук СССР. Институт истории. — Москва; Ленинград: Издательство Академии Наук СССР, 1946. — 155 с. : ил. Предлагаемая вниманию читателя книга представляет посмертное издание труда Владимира Михайловича Мирошевского (1900—1942), крупного советского общественного деятеля и ученого. Своей научной специальностью В. М. Мирошевский избрал историю Латинской Америки и в течение...
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Баэс К. Г., Е. А. Ларин.
- Начало колониального периода.
- Роль монахов в деле христианизации Америки.
- Деятельность Фрай Антон де Монтесиноса.
- Бартоломе де лас Касас о Монтесиносе.
М.: Центрполиграф, 2018. — 452 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5320-3. Испанская империя была первой во времена великих, рожденных морем империй Западной Европы, огромной и самой богатой, что сделало ее объектом зависти, страха и ненависти. Выдающийся британский историк Джон Перри представляет историю возникновения, расцвета и распада великой морской Испанской державы. Автор прослеживает...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2018. — 452 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5320-3. Испанская империя была первой во времена великих, рожденных морем империй Западной Европы, огромной и самой богатой, что сделало ее объектом зависти, страха и ненависти. Выдающийся британский историк Джон Перри представляет историю возникновения, расцвета и распада великой морской Испанской державы. Автор прослеживает...
Москва: Центрполиграф, 2018. — 452 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5320-3. Испанская империя была первой во времена великих, рожденных морем империй Западной Европы, огромной и самой богатой, что сделало ее объектом зависти, страха и ненависти. Выдающийся британский историк Джон Перри представляет историю возникновения, расцвета и распада великой морской Испанской державы. Автор...
М.: Наука, 1984. — 186 с.: ил. — (История и современность). В книге рассказывается о завоевании испанскими и португальскими колонизаторами Латинской Америки в XVI в., об эксплуатации ими порабощенных индейских народов, о первых этапах борьбы латиноамериканцев против колониального гнета и идеологической подготовке войны за независимость, развернувшейся в первой четверти XIX в.,...
М.: Наука, 1984. — 176 с.: ил. — (История и современность). В книге рассказывается о завоевании испанскими и португальскими колонизаторами Латинской Америки в XVI в., об эксплуатации ими порабощенных индейских народов, о первых этапах борьбы латиноамериканцев против колониального гнета и идеологической подготовке войны за независимость, развернувшейся в первой четверти XIX в.,...
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