The human tradition in Colonial Latin America
By: edited by Kenneth J. Andrien.
Contributors: Andrien, Kenneth J., 1951-
Series: The human tradition around the world ;; no. 5; Human tradition around the world ;; no. 5.
Publisher: Scholarly Resources, Inc.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Wilmington, Del
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Social conflict -- Latin America -- History.; Latin America -- History -- To 1830 -- Biography.; Latin America -- Social conditions.; Latin America -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Colonial Latin America
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I New World Beginnings and Efforts to Create a Colonial Social Order, 1492-1610 1; title: 1 Gaspar Antonio Chi: Bridging the Conquest of Yucatan 6; title: Matthew Restall; title: 2 Don Melchior Caruarayco: A Kuraka of Cajamarca in Sixteenth-Century Peru 22; title: Susan E. Ramirez; title: 3 Dofia Isabel Sisa: A Sixteenth-Century Indian Woman Resisting Gender Inequalities 35; title: Ana Maria Presta; title: 4 Domingos Fernandes Nobre: "Tomacauna," a Go-Between in Sixteenth-Century Brazil 51; title: Alida C. Metcalf; title: 5 The Mysterious Catalina: Indian or Spaniard? 64; title: Noble David Cook; title: II The Mature Colonial Order, 1610-1740 85; title: 6 Ursula de Jesus: A Seventeenth-Century Afro-Peruvian Mystic 88; title: Nancy E. van Deusen; title: 7 Zumbi of Palmares: Challenging the Portuguese Colonial Order 104; title: Mary Karasch; title: 8 Diego de Ocafia: Holy Wanderer 121; title: Kenneth Mills; title: 9 Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala: Native Writer and Litigant in Early Colonial Peru 140; title: Rolena Adorno; title: 10 AhChan: The Conquest of the Itza Maya Kingdom 164; title: Grant D. Jones; title: III Reform, Resistance, and Rebellion, 1740-1825 189; title: 11 Pedro de Ayarza: The Purchase of Whiteness 194; title: Ann Twinam; title: 12 Victorina Loza: Quitefia Merchant in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century 211; title: Christiana Borchart de Moreno; title: 13 Jose Antonio da Silva: Marriage and Concubinage in Colonial Brazil 229; title: Muriel S. Nazzari; title: 14 Eugenio Sinanyuca: Militant, Nonrevolutionary Kuraka, and Community Defender 241; title: Ward Stavig; title: 15 Juan Barbarin: The 1795 French Conspiracy in Buenos Aires 259; title: Lyman L. Johnson; title: 16 Miguel Garcia: Black Soldier in the Wars of Independence 278; title: Peter Blanchard; title: 17 Angela Batallas: A Fight for Freedom in Guayaquil 293; title: Camilla Townsend.