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Conquest on Trial
Carvajal's Complaint of the Indians in the Court of Death
Häftad, 2008
358 kr
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Michael de Carvajal’s fascinating and unusual play—published by Luis Hurtado de Toledo in 1557—is a rare sixteenth-century theatrical piece about the conquest of the New World. It is a long-ignored but fundamental source for the study of Latin American cultural history. A theatrical version of the …
Invading Guatemala
Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Accounts of the Conquest Wars
Av Matthew Restall, Florine Asselbergs
Häftad, 2008
298 kr
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After invading highland Guatemala in 1524, Spaniards claimed to have smashed the Kaqchikel and K’iche’ Maya kingdoms and to have forged a new colony—with their leader, Pedro de Alvarado, as Guatemala’s conquistador. This volume shows that the real story of the Spanish invasion was very different. …
Invading Colombia
Spanish Accounts of the Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada Expedition of Conquest
Häftad, 2008
392 kr
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In early April 1536, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada led a military expedition from the coastal city of Santa Marta deep into the interior of what is today modern Colombia. With roughly eight hundred Spaniards and numerous native carriers and black slaves, the Jiménez expedition was larger than the …
Defending the Conquest
Bernardo de Vargas Machuca's Defense and Discourse of the Western Conquests
Av Kris Lane
Häftad, 2010
391 kr
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Of great benefit for scholars and teachers, this is the first English translation and critical edition of a rare refutation of Bartolomé de las Casas’s famous 1552 Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies, one of the most influential texts of the sixteenth century. The Defense and Discourse …
Of Cannibals and Kings
Primal Anthropology in the Americas
Häftad, 2011
391 kr
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Of Cannibals and Kings collects the very earliest accounts of the native peoples of the Americas, including selections from the descriptions of Columbus’s first two voyages; documents reflecting the initial colonial occupation in Haiti, Venezuela, and Guyana; and the first ethnographic account of …
Forgotten Franciscans
Works from an Inquisitional Theorist, a Heretic, and an Inquisitional Deputy
Häftad, 2011
316 kr
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The Franciscans were the first missionaries to come to Mexico, and the Franciscans developed important and lucrative ties with the newly rich conquistador elite and the faction behind Cortés. The order quickly became the wealthiest, having the most dramatic missionary churches, owning prime real …
Gods of the Andes
An Early Jesuit Account of Inca Religion and Andean Christianity
Häftad, 2011
436 kr
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Gods of the Andes provides the first English translation of the earliest lengthy description of Inca religion, An Account of the Ancient Customs of the Natives of Peru (1594). The Account is part of a Jesuit tradition of ecumenical works on religion that encompasses the more famous writings of …
Translated Christianities
Nahuatl and Maya Religious Texts
Häftad, 2014
393 kr
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Beginning in the sixteenth century, ecclesiastics and others created religious texts written in the native languages of the Nahua and Yucatec Maya. These texts played an important role in the evangelization of central Mexico and Yucatan. Translated Christianities is the first book to provide …
Native Conquistador
Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Account of the Conquest of New Spain
Av Amber Brian, Bradley Benton m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
323 kr
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For many years, scholars of the conquest worked to shift focus away from the Spanish perspective and bring attention to the often-ignored voices and viewpoints of the Indians. But recent work that highlights the “Indian conquistadors” has forced scholars to reexamine the simple categories of …
History of the New World
Benzoni's Historia del Mondo Nuovo
Av Girolamo Benzoni, Robert C. Schwaller m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
324 kr
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The History of the New World is an abridged, unique English translation of sixteenth-century Italian merchant Girolamo Benzoni’s popular account of his adventures in the Americas and the Spanish colonies.First published in Venice in 1565, Benzoni’s book was an immediate best seller and available in …
Contesting Conquest
Indigenous Perspectives on the Spanish Occupation of Nueva Galicia, 1524–1545
Av Ida Altman
Häftad, 2017
316 kr
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Contesting Conquest presents an important set of indigenous and Spanish accounts that document Spain’s efforts to establish control over western Mexico during the first half of the sixteenth century.Though the 1521 defeat of the Mexica of Tenochtitlan signaled the downfall of the Aztec empire, …
To Heaven or to Hell
Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Confesionario
Häftad, 2018
313 kr
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This volume is the first complete English translation and annotated study of Bartolomé de Las Casas’s important and provocative 1552 treatise commonly known as the Confesionario or Avisos y reglas. A text that generated controversy, like Las Casas’s more famous Brevísima relación, the Confesionario …
To the Shores of Chile
The Journal and History of the Brouwer Expedition to Valdivia in 1643
Av Mark Meuwese
Häftad, 2019
357 kr
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To the Shores of Chile presents the remarkable story of an expedition that took place in Latin America during the height of the Dutch Empire. Skillfully translated by Mark Meuwese, this captivating work sheds light on Dutch imperialism and the complicated relationships between Native peoples and …
Baptism Through Incision
The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire
Av Martha Few, Zeb Tortorici m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
264 kr
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In 1786, Guatemalan priest Pedro José de Arrese published a work instructing readers on their duty to perform the cesarean operation on the bodies of recently deceased pregnant women in order to extract the fetus while it was still alive. Although the fetus’s long-term survival was desired, the …
Indigenous Life After the Conquest
The De la Cruz Family Papers of Colonial Mexico
Av Caterina Pizzigoni, Camilla Townsend
Häftad, 2021
241 kr
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This book presents a unique set of written records belonging to the De la Cruz family, caciques of Tepemaxalco in the Toluca Valley. Composed in Nahuatl and Spanish and available here both in the original languages and in English translation, this collection of documents opens a window onto the …
Irish Rebel in New Spain
The Tumultuous Life and Tragic Death of William Lamport
Häftad, 2022
276 kr
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An Irish Rebel in New Spain recounts the story of the so-called Irish Zorro, who, in 1659, was burned at the stake for conspiring against the empire to make himself king of Mexico, restore the privileges of the Indigenous people, end the persecution of the Jews, and free the African slaves.William …
Pandemic in Potosí
Fear, Loathing, and Public Piety in a Colonial Mining Metropolis
Av Kris Lane
Häftad, 2022
241 kr
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In 1719, a deadly and highly contagious disease took hold of the Imperial Villa of Potosí, a silver mining metropolis in what is now Bolivia. Within a year, the pathogen had killed some 22,000 people, just over a third of the city’s residents. Victims collapsed with fever, body aches, and effusions …
Criminal Case of Juana Aguilar
Adjudicating Gender in Colonial Central America
Häftad, 2025
272 kr
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In 1792 in rural San Salvador, Juana Aguilar was accused of committing what the authorities called a “heinous” crime. Aguilar was suspected of being a “hermaphrodite,” and while this in and of itself was not a crime, determining Aguilar’s sex would resolve whether the relationships Aguilar had with …
Conquest That Never Was
Pedro de Alvarado and the Delusion of Peru
Häftad, 2026
358 kr
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The Conquest That Never Was uncovers one of the most ambitious but disastrous campaigns of the early colonial period. Pedro de Alvarado—best known as Cortés’s lieutenant in Mexico and later as the conqueror of Guatemala—sought to extend his fame and fortune by seizing Quito in the northern Inca …
Conquest That Never Was
Pedro de Alvarado and the Delusion of Peru
Inbunden, 2026
1178 kr
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The Conquest That Never Was uncovers one of the most ambitious but disastrous campaigns of the early colonial period. Pedro de Alvarado—best known as Cortés’s lieutenant in Mexico and later as the conqueror of Guatemala—sought to extend his fame and fortune by seizing Quito in the northern Inca …
Epic of Florida
Selected Poems by Juan de Castellanos, Bartolomé de Flores, and Alonso Gregorio de Escobedo
Inbunden, 2026
1250 kr
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The Epic of Florida brings to light a neglected tradition of colonial poetry from the sixteenth century. Written in response to dramatic encounters on the peninsula—Ponce de León’s landfall in 1513, the founding of St. Augustine in 1565, and ongoing conflicts among European empires and Native …
Epic of Florida
Selected Poems by Juan de Castellanos, Bartolomé de Flores, and Alonso Gregorio de Escobedo
Häftad, 2026
333 kr
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The Epic of Florida brings to light a neglected tradition of colonial poetry from the sixteenth century. Written in response to dramatic encounters on the peninsula—Ponce de León’s landfall in 1513, the founding of St. Augustine in 1565, and ongoing conflicts among European empires and Native …
Improbable Conquest
Sixteenth-Century Letters from the Río de la Plata
Av Pablo García Loaeza, Victoria L. Garrett
Häftad, 2015
323 kr
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The Improbable Conquest offers translations of a series of little-known letters from the chaotic Spanish conquest of the Río de la Plata region, uncovering a rich and understudied historical resource. These letters were written by a wide variety of individuals, including clergy, military officers, …
Violent First Contact in Venezuela
Nikolaus Federmann’s Indian History
Av Peter Hess
Häftad, 2022
323 kr
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Published in 1557, Nikolaus Federmann’s Jndianische Historia is a fascinating narrative describing the German military commander’s incursion into what is now Venezuela. Designed not only for classroom use but also for the use of scholars, this English translation is accompanied by a critical …
