The Mexican mission : indigenous reconstruction and mendicant enterprise in New Spain, 1521-1600 / Ryan Dominic Crewe, University of Colorado, Denver.
In the sixty years following the Spanish conquest, indigenous communities in central Mexico suffered the equivalent of three Black Deaths, a demographic catastrophe that prompted them to rebuild under the aegis of Spanish missions. Where previous histories have framed this process as an epochal spir...
| Uniform Title: | Cambridge Latin American studies ;
114. |
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Cambridge Latin American studies ;
114. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 305 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Conversion
- The burning temple: religion and conquest in Mesoamerica and the Iberian Atlantic, circa 1500
- Christening colonialism: the politics of conversion in post-conquest Mexico
- Construction
- The staff, the lash, and the trumpet: the native infrastructure of the mission enterprise
- Paying for Thebaid: the colonial economy of a mendicant paradise
- Building in the shadow of death: monastery construction and the politics of community reconstitution
- A fraying fabric
- The burning church: native and Spanish wars over the mission enterprise
- Hecatomb
- Salazarʹs doubt: global echoes of the Mexican mission.