Colonial Spanish America: A Documentary History (Jaguar Books on Latin America)

Colonial Spanish America is a book of readings about people—people from different worlds who came together to form a society by chance and by design in the years after 1492. The book is meant to enrich, not repeat, the work of existing texts on this period, and its focus on people makes it stand out from other books that have concentrated on the political and economic aspects of the culture. This text provides a detailed look at the cultural development of colonial Latin America using readings, documents, historical analysis, and visual materials, including photographs, drawings, and paintings. The book makes interesting and exciting use of the illustrations and documents, which show social changes, puzzling developments, and the experience of living in the colonial society. Religion and society are the integral themes of Colonial Spanish America. Religion becomes the nexus for much of what has been treated as political, social, economic, and cultural history during this period. Society is just as inclusive, allowing the reader to meet a variety of individuals-not faceless social groups. While some familiar faces and voices are included-namely those of Spanish conquerors, chroniclers, and missionaries-other, less familiar points of view complement and complicate the better-known narratives of this history. In treating Iberia and America, before as well as after their meeting, apparent contradictions emerge as opportunities for understanding; different perspectives become prompts for wider discussion. Other themes include exploration; military and spiritual conquest; and the formation, consolidation, reform, and collapse of colonial institutions of government and the Church, and the accompanying changes in the economy and labor. Colonial Spanish America: A Documentary History is an excellent tool for Latin American history survey courses. Title Page Copyright Page ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Table of Contents EDITORS' NOTE Table of Figures INTRODUCTION -- Texts and Images for Colonial History PART I -- Old Worlds and the Time of Discoveries 1 -- The Ancestors of the People Called Indians 2 -- The Inka's Tunics 3 -- The Lords and Holy Men of Tenochtitlan Reply to the Franciscans, 1524 4 -- The Aztec Stone of the Five Eras 5 -- Coexistence in the Medieval Spanish Kingdoms 6 -- The Coming of the White People 7 -- Orders Given to "the Twelve" 8 -- Francisco de Vitoria on the Evangelization of Unbelievers, Salamanca, Spain. 9 -- Two Woodcuts Accompanying a 1509 German Translation of Amerigo Vespucci's Letter to Pietro Soderini10 -- Christoph Weiditz's Drawing of an Indian Woman of Mexico 11 -- Christoph Weiditz's Drawing of a Morisco Woman and Her Daughter at Home PART II -- The Americas as New Worlds for All? 12 -- Fray Pedro de Gante's Letter to Charles V, Mexico City 13 -- The Evils of Cochineal, Tlaxcala, Mexico 14 -- The Indian Pueblo of Texupa in Sixteenth-Century Mexico 15 -- Fray Juan Izquierdo's Letter and Report to Charles V, Barcelona, Spain 16 -- Alonso Ortiz's Letter to His Wife, Mexico City. 17 -- Jerónimo de Benarcama's Letter to Francisco de Borja, Granada, Spain18 -- José de Acosta on the Salvation of the Indians 19 -- Miguel Hernandez, Master of Mule Trains 20 -- Two Images from the Codex Osuna, Mexico City 21 -- Two Images from the Codex Sierra, Oaxaca, Mexico 22 -- Fray Diego Valadés's Ideal Atrio and Its Activities 23 -- The Huejotzingo Altarpiece, Mexico 24 -- The Mulatto Gentlemen of Esmeraldas, Ecuador PART III -- Spanish American Baroque in a Long Seventeenth Century 25 -- Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's Appeal Concerning the Priests, Peru. 26 -- Pedro de Leon Portocarrero's Description of Lima, Peru27 -- The Church and Monastery of San Francisco, Lima, Peru 28 -- Beatriz de Padilla, Mulatta Mistress and Mother 29 -- Fruits of the Faith in the Seventeenth Century 30 -- Santa Rosa of Lima According to a Pious Accountant 31 -- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's Letter to Sor Filotea 32 -- Portraits of Santa Rosa and Sor Juana 33 -- Mutilated Memory 34 -- Francisco de Avila's Christmas Eve Sermon 35 -- The Witness Francisco Poma y Altas Caldeas of San Pedro de Acas, Cajatambo, Peru. 36 -- Crossing and Dome of the Rosary Chapel, Church of Santo Domingo, Puebla, Mexico37 -- Two Paintings of a Corpus Christi Procession in Cusco, Peru PART IV -- Bourbon Rules and American Practices in a Short Eighteenth Century 38 -- Nicolás Ñenguirú's Letter to the Governor of Buenos Aires 39 -- José de Gálvez's Decrees for the King's Subjects in Mexico 40 -- The Foundation of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe de los Morenos de Amapa, Mexico 41 -- Concolorcorvo Engages the Postal Inspector about Indian Affairs, Lima, Peru 42 -- Parish Priests and Indian Resistance in Late Colonial Mexico. 43 -- Taxonomy of a Colonial "Riot." Title Page; Copyright Page; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Table of Contents; EDITORS' NOTE; Table of Figures; INTRODUCTION -- Texts and Images for Colonial History; PART I -- Old Worlds and the Time of Discoveries; 1 -- The Ancestors of the People Called Indians; 2 -- The Inka's Tunics; 3 -- The Lords and Holy Men of Tenochtitlan Reply to the Franciscans, 1524; 4 -- The Aztec Stone of the Five Eras; 5 -- Coexistence in the Medieval Spanish Kingdoms; 6 -- The Coming of the White People; 7 -- Orders Given to "the Twelve"; 8 -- Francisco de Vitoria on the Evangelization of Unbelievers, Salamanca, Spain.;Colonial Spanish America is a book of readings about people-people from different worlds who came together to form a society by chance and by design in the years after 1492. The book is meant to enrich, not repeat, the work of existing texts on this period, and its focus on people makes it stand out from other books that have concentrated on the political and economic aspects of the culture. This text provides a detailed look at the cultural development of colonial Latin America using readings, documents, historical analysis, and visual materials, including photographs, drawings, and paintings. This text provides an examination of the cultural development of colonial Latin America, using readings, documents, historical analysis, and visual material, including photographs, drawings and paintings. The illustrations are intended to offer avenues to discussion topics.