Conflict and Conversion in Sixteenth Century Central Mexico

Robert H. Jackson, Ph.D. (1988) University of California, Berkeley, is Professor of International Relations and Latin American Studies at Alliant International University, Mexico City, and Program Director of the Alliant School of Management. He has authored, co-authored, edited, and co-edited 11 books and more than 60 journal articles.

[...] [S]pecialists will certainly value this engagingly written and wide-rangong study and the author's decision to adopt a historical approach to a topic that, still in its infancy, has attracted mostly the attention of art historians. It also bears repeating that this is a beautifully illustrated monograph.Andrew B. Fisher, Itinerario, Vol. 38, No. 1 (2014), pp. 174-176"In this wonderfully illustrated monograph, Robert H. Jackson departs from his usual focus on late colonial Spanish-American frontier missions to examine sixteenth-century murals executed on the walls of Augustinian conventos in the modern Mexican states of Hidalgo and Michoacán. [...] Jackson makes an important contribution to the extensive literature examining the evangelisation of native peoples in sixteenth-century Mexico."- Verónica A. Gutiérrez (Azusa Pacific University), ThE English Historical Review, CXXX. 542 (February 2015)

• General Editor’s PrefaceList of Tables, Figures and MapPreface: Genesis of a Question and InterpretationAcknowledgement1. Introduction 2. Setting the Stage: Native Peoples and Augustinian Missions in Central Mexico and Beyond the Chichimeca Frontier3. The War against Satan and Sin: The Open Chapel Murals of San Nicolás Tolentino and Santa María Xoxoteco4. The Holy War against the Chichimecas: The Ixmiquilpan Church Mural Series5. Beyond the Chichimeca Frontier: Augustinian Evangelization of the Sierra Gorda, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries 6. Conclusion Glossary Selected Bibliography Index