Utopia and history in Mexico
Subtitle: the first chroniclers of Mexican civilization (1520-1569)
By: Georges Baudot ; translated by Bernard R. Ortiz de Montellano and Thelma Ortiz de Montellano.
Series: Mesoamerican worlds : from the Olmecs to the Danzantes; Mesoamerican worlds.
Publisher: University Press of Colorado; Univ of Oklahoma Pr
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Niwot
Language: eng
Number of pages: 566
Subjects: Indians of Mexico -- History -- Sources.; Ethnology -- Mexico.; Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540 -- Sources.
Description: "Important historical analysis of 16th-century accounts concerning indigenous people. Examines context in which chronicles - considered among the earliest ethnographies - were written (and censured and ignored), and Franciscan beliefs about the Indians' future within the millennial kingdom. First English translation"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 532-551) and index.
Translated into English from the Spanish translation of the French original.