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| Reference Maps |
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Map 1. The Iberian Peninsula |
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Map 2. The West African Coast and ``Atlantic Mediterranean'' |
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Map 4. New Spain and the Caribbean Basin |
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Map 6. The Pajonal on Peru's Tarma Frontier |
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| Introduction---Texts and Images for Colonial History |
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| PART I Old Worlds and the Time of Discoveries |
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The Ancestors of the People Called Indians A View from Huarochiri, Peru (ca. 1598-1608) |
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The Inka's Tunics (fifteenth to sixteenth centuries) |
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14 | (5) |
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The Lords and Holy Men of Tenochtitlan Reply to the Franciscans, 1524 (1564) |
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19 | (4) |
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The Aztec Stone of the Five Eras (late fifteenth century) |
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23 | (4) |
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Coexistence in the Medieval Spanish Kingdoms (ninth to twelfth centuries) |
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27 | (7) |
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A Pope Rewards ``So Salutary and Laudable a Work'' (1455) |
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34 | (9) |
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``There Can Easily Be Stamped Upon Them Whatever Belief We Wish to Give Them'' The First Letter from Brazil (1500) |
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43 | (16) |
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Orders Given to ``the Twelve'' (1523) |
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59 | (6) |
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Francisco de Vitoria ``On the Evangelization of Unbelievers,'' Salamanca, Spain (1534-35) |
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65 | (13) |
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Two Woodcuts Accompanying a 1509 German Translation of Amerigo Vespucci's Letter to Pietro Soderini (1504) |
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78 | (6) |
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Christoph Weiditz's Drawing of an Indian Woman of Mexico (1529) |
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84 | (3) |
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Christoph Weiditz's Drawing of a Morisco Woman and Her Daughter at Home (1529) |
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87 | (6) |
| PART II The Americas as New Worlds for All? |
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The Jesuit and the Bishop, Bahia, Brazil (1552-53) |
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93 | (11) |
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Fray Pedro de Gante's Letter to Charles V, Mexico City (1552) |
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104 | (9) |
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The Evils of Cochineal, Tlaxcala, Mexico (1553) |
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113 | (4) |
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The Indian Pueblo of Texupa in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (1579) |
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117 | (7) |
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Alonso Ortiz's Letter to His Wife, Mexico City (1574?) |
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124 | (3) |
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Jeronimo de Benarcama's Letter to Francisco de Borja, Granada, Spain (1566) |
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127 | (7) |
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Jose de Acosta on the Salvation of the Indians (1588) |
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134 | (10) |
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Two Images from the Codex Osuna, Mexico City (1565) |
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144 | (4) |
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Two Images from the Codex Sierra, Oaxaca, Mexico (1555, 1561) |
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148 | (2) |
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Fray Diego Valades's Ideal Atrio and Its Activities (1579) |
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150 | (3) |
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The Huejotzingo Altarpiece, Mexico (1586) |
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153 | (6) |
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The Mulatto Gentlemen of Esmeraldas, Ecuador |
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159 | (3) |
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``Blacks Dancing'' (ca. 1640) |
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162 | (5) |
| PART III Mid-Colonial Ways and Orders |
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Making an Image and a Shrine, Copacabana, Peru (1582-1621) |
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167 | (6) |
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Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's Appeal Concerning the Priests, Peru (ca. 1615) |
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173 | (12) |
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Pedro de Leon Portocarrero's Description of Lima, Peru (early seventeenth century) |
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185 | (11) |
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The Church and Monastery of San Francisco, Lima, Peru (1673) |
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196 | (2) |
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Santa Rosa of Lima According to a Pious Accountant (1617) |
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198 | (9) |
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Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz's Letter to Sor Filotea (1691) |
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207 | (8) |
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Portraits of Santa Rosa and Sor Juana |
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215 | (3) |
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Two Slaveries---The Sermons of Padre Antonio Vieira, Salvador, Bahia (ca. 1633), and Sao Luis do Maranhao (1653) |
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218 | (16) |
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Confessing to the Holy Office of the Inquisition, Bahia, Brazil (1592, 1618) |
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234 | (12) |
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Francisco de Avila's Christmas Eve Sermon (1646) |
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246 | (9) |
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The Witness Francisco Poma y Altas Caldeas of San Pedro de Acas, Cajatambo, Peru (1657) |
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255 | (14) |
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Crossing and Dome of the Rosary Chapel, Church of Santo Domingo, Puebla, Mexico (1632-1690) |
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269 | (3) |
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Two Paintings of a Corpus Christi Procession, Cusco, Peru (ca. 1674-1680) |
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272 | (8) |
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A Black Irmandade in Bahia, Brazil (1699) |
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280 | (19) |
| PART IV Iberian Rules and American Practices in the Eighteenth Century |
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``As for the Spaniards, their time is up,'' Jauja, Peru (1742, 1752) |
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299 | (10) |
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Nicolas Nenguiru's Letter to the Governor of Buenos Aires (1753) |
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309 | (7) |
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Jose de Galvez's Decrees for the King's Subjects in Mexico (1769, 1778) |
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316 | (4) |
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The Foundation of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe de los Morenos de Amapa, Mexico (1769) |
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320 | (8) |
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Concolorcorvo Engages the Postal Inspector about Indian Affairs, Lima, Peru (1776) |
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328 | (7) |
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Taming the Wilderness, Minas Gerais, Brazil (1769) |
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335 | (18) |
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Thanking Saint Anne---An Ex-voto from Brazil (1755) |
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353 | (3) |
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Jeremiah in the Stocks---Baroque Art from the Gold Fields of Minas Gerais, Brazil (ca. 1770s) |
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356 | (4) |
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Two Castas Paintings from Eighteenth-Century Mexico |
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360 | (6) |
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Juan Francisco Dominguez's Discourses on the Ten Commandments, Mexico (1805) |
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366 | (6) |
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Brazilian Slaves Who Marry (1811) |
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372 | (3) |
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Two Brazilian Wills (1793, 1823) |
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375 | (9) |
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Late Eighteenth-Century Inscriptions on Fountains and Monuments in Mexico City |
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384 | (6) |
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Tupac Amaru I, Remembered (eighteenth century) |
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390 | (5) |
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``America Nursing Spanish Noble Boys,'' Peru (ca. 1770s) |
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395 | (2) |
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Jose Maria Morelos's ``Sentiments of the Nation,'' Chilpancingo, Mexico (1813) |
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397 | (4) |
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The Argentine Declaration of Independence, San Miguel de Tucuman (1816) |
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401 | (2) |
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The Brazilian Constitution and the Church (1824) |
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403 | (2) |
| Glossary |
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405 | (8) |
| Notes on Selections and Sources |
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| Index |
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