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Authors: Sandra Lauderdale Graham, Kenneth Mills (Editor), Sandra Lauderdale Graham
ISBN-13: 9780842029971, ISBN-10: 0842029974
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Scholarly Resources, Inc.
Date Published: August 2002
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Sandra Lauderdale Graham

Book Synopsis

Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History centers on people from different parts of the world who came together to form societies by chance and by design in the years after 1492. This text encourages detailed exploration of the cultural development of colonial Latin America through a wide variety of documents and visual materials, most of which have been translated and presented originally for this collection.

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Emphasizing the confluence of the many, varied peoples that formed societies in colonial Latin America by chance and by design in the years following 1492, this text examines the country's cultural development based on readings, documents, historical analysis, photographs, drawings, and paintings. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents

Editors' Note
List of Illustrations
Reference Maps
Introduction - Texts and Images for Colonial History
Pt. IOld Worlds and the Time of Discoveries
The Ancestors of the People Called Indians: A View from Huarochiri, Peru (ca. 1598-1608)
The Inka's Tunics (fifteenth to sixteenth centuries)
The Lords and Holy Men of Tenochtitlan Reply to the Franciscans, 1524 (1564)
The Aztec Stone of the Five Eras (late fifteenth century)
Coexistence in the Medieval Spanish Kingdoms (ninth to twelfth centuries)
A Pope Rewards "So Salutary and Laudable a Work" (1455)
"There Can Easily Be Stamped Upon Them Whatever Belief We Wish to Give Them": The First Letter from Brazil (1500)
Orders Given to "the Twelve" (1523)
Francisco de Vitoria "On the Evangelization of Unbelievers," Salamanca, Spain (1534-35)
Pt. IIThe Americas as New Worlds for All?
The Jesuit and the Bishop, Bahia, Brazil (1552-53)
Fray Pedro de Gante's Letter to Charles V, Mexico City (1552)
The Evils of Cochineal, Tlaxcala Mexico (1553)
The Indian Pueblo of Texupa in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (1579)
Alonso Ortiz's Letter to His Wife, Mexico City (1574?)
Jeronimo de Benarcama's Letter to Francisco de Borja, Granada, Spain (1566)
Jose de Acosta on the Salvation of the Indians (1588)
Pt. IIIMid-Colonial Ways and Orders
Making an Image and a Shrine, Copacabana, Peru (1582-1621)
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's Appeal Concerning the Priests, Peru (ca. 1615)
Pedro de Leon Portocarrero's Description of Lima, Peru (early seventeenth century)
The Church and Monastery of San Francisco, Lima, Peru (1673)
Santa Rosa of Lima According to a Pious Accountant (1617)
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz's Letter to Sor Filotea (1691)
Portraits of Santa Rosa and Sor Juana
Two Slaveries - The Sermons of Padre Antonio Vieira, Salvador, Bahia (ca. 1633), and Sao Luis do Maranhao (1653)
Confessing to the Holy Office of the Inquisition, Bahia, Brazil (1592, 1618)
Francisco de Avila's Christmas Eve Sermon (1646)
The Witness Francisco Poma y Altas Caldeas of San Pedro de Acas, Cajatambo, Peru (1657)
A Black Irmandade in Bahia, Brazil (1699)
Pt. IVIberian Rules and American Practices in the Eighteenth Century
"As for the Spaniards, their time is up," Jauja, Peru (1742, 1752)
Nicolas Nenguiru's Letter to the Governor of Buenos Aires (1753)
Jose de Galvez's Decrees for the King's Subjects in Mexico (1769, 1778)
The Foundation of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe de los Morenos de Amapa, Mexico (1769)
Concolorcorvo Engages the Postal Inspector about Indian Affairs, Lima, Peru (1776)
Taming the Wilderness, Minas Garais, Brazil (1769)
Juan Francisco Dominguez's Discourses on the Ten Commandments, Mexico (1805)
Brazilian Slaves Who Marry (1811)
Two Brazilian Wills (1793, 1823)
Jose Maria Morelos's "Sentiments of the Nation," Chilpancingo, Mexico (1813)
The Argentine Declaration of Independence, San Miguel de Tucuman (1816)
The Brazilian Constitution and the Church (1824)
Glossary
Notes on Selections and Sources
Index

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