Letters and people of the Spanish Indies, sixteenth century /
This volume presents a selection of translated public and private letters, written by Spanish officials, merchants, and ordinary settlers, aiming to illuminate the panorama of sixteenth-century Spanish American settler society and its genres of correspondence. Letters written by Native Americans, a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Spanish |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1976.
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| Series: | Cambridge Latin American studies ;
22. |
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Table of Contents:
- [pt. 1:] Conquest. Conquest in the personal view
- A standard conqueror's report
- The woman as conqueror
- The merchant and the conquest of Peru
- The merchant and the conquest of Mexico
- The non-hero
- The successful conqueror
- The unsuccessful conqueror
- The conqueror-governor
- The conqueror in jail
- [pt. 2:] The variety of life in the Indies. An encomendero's establishment
- An encomendero's opinions
- The miner
- Commerce across the Atlantic
- The professor of theology
- The new arrival
- The tanner and his wife
- The troubadour
- The nephew
- The garden and the gate
- The woman as settler
- The farmer
- The petty dealer
- The Flemish tailors
- The nobleman
- The Hispanized Indian
- Indian high society
- An Indian town addresses the king
- [pt. 3:] Officials and clerics. How a governor operates
- Alarm and drastic remedies : A viceroy's view of New Spain
- The concerns of a judge
- Bishop and the governor
- A bishop's affairs
- Franciscans and the Indians
- The Dominican attack
- The Franciscan reply
- The petty administrator
- The parish priest.