Author: John C. Super
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Author: Rebecca Earle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107003423
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation in Spanish America and the bodily experience of eating.

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Category : Colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Author: Lewis Hanke
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Author: William L. Sherman
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803241008
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540

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Little has been written on society in the Spanish Indies during the sixteenth century, although it was during those formative decades that the Latin American class structure evolved. The Spanish conquest of the Indians produced profound social dislocations as many Spaniards of a low station found themselves members of a new aristocracy and native lords were often reduced to servitude. This book presents the firstøcomprehensive investigation of the primary issue of the first century of Spanish American colonization: the massive system of Indian forced labor, ranging from outright slavery to the encomienda, upon which Spanish colonial society rested. Focusing on the fate of the natives under Spanish rule, the author traces in graphic detail the rupturing of Indian traditions and the fate that befell the Indian people. While demonstrating the excesses of the conquistadores and unscrupulous crown officials, he also emphasizes that Central America was the scene of the first attempts to apply the famous New Laws. Although that legislation was not fully implemented, the reformist judge Alonso L¢pez de Cerrato made significant improvements in labor conditions, in the face of furious opposition from the Spanish settlers. Aside from its discussion of labor practices, this account deals with population figures and the extent of the slave trade, and corrects a number of errors in traditional sources. In addition, Spanish Indian policy, particularly at the local level, is examined in combination with character studies of individual officials, providing a much needed new look at the way in which Indians were affected by the conquest. Based primarily on documents in Spanish and Central American archives, the book includes chapters on the treatment of Indian women and the decline of the native nobility which made valuable contributions to the ethnology as well as the history of Central America.

Author: Tzvetan Todorov
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780060912147
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Author: James Muldoon
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512809578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Juan de Solorzano Pereira (1575-1654) was a lawyer who spent eighteen years as a judge in Peru before returning to Spain to serve on the Councils of Castile and of the Indies. Considered one of the finest lawyers in Spain, his work, De Indiarum Jure, was the most sophisticated defense of the Spanish conquest of the Americas ever written, and he was widely cited in Europe and the Americas until the early nineteenth century. His work, and that of the Spanish School of international law theorists generally, is often seen as leading to Hugo Grotius and modern international law. However, as James Muldoon shows, the De Indiarum Jure represents the fullest development of a medieval Catholic theory of international order that provided an alternative to the Grotian theory.

Author: Rebecca Earle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110737796X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation and the bodily experience of eating. It reveals the importance of food to the colonial project in Spanish America and reconceptualises the role of European colonial expansion in shaping the emergence of ideas of race during the Age of Discovery. Rebecca Earle shows that anxieties about food were fundamental to Spanish understandings of the new environment they inhabited and their interactions with the native populations of the New World. Settlers wondered whether Europeans could eat New World food, whether Indians could eat European food and what would happen to each if they did. By taking seriously their ideas about food we gain a richer understanding of how settlers understood the physical experience of colonialism and of how they thought about one of the central features of the colonial project. The result is simultaneously a history of food, colonialism and race.

Author: José Rabasa
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822325673
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Explores the representations of violence in colonial Nuevo Mexico as seen in history and fiction literature of the period.

Author: Sir Arthur Helps
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Category : Indians, Treatment of
Languages : en
Pages : 582

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