Ambivalent conquests
Subtitle: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570
By: Inga Clendinnen.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Cambridge Latin American studies -- 61.; Cambridge Latin American studies -- 61.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Mayas -- History -- 16th century; Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- History -- 16th century; Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540
Description: ""Inga Clendinnen has written a remarkable book about the encounters of Spaniards and Maya peoples of the Yucatan Peninsula during the sixteenth century. Like the self-conscious categories used by the actors, separate halves of the book are devoted to the Spaniards and the Mayas, but at nearly every point Clendinnen connects the two histories and shows their interrelationships. People on both sides were changed, even transformed (when they were not destroyed) but she shows that in fun-damental perceptions and boundaries, they remained true to their past. Book jacket."--Jacket.
Notes: Previous ed.: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.