Rereading the Conquest
Subtitle: Power, Politics, and the History of Early Colonial Michoacan, Mexico, 1521-1565
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press; Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt)
Published: December 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780271021294
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Literature: History & Criticism; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Social history; History; History - General History; History: World; Historiography; Latin America - Mexico; Indians of Mexico; Mexico; Michoacan de Ocampo; Michoacâan de Ocampo; Missions; Tarasco Indians
Description: "Combining social history with literary criticism, James Krippner-Martinez shows how a historiographically sensitive rereading of contemporaneous documents concerning the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest and evangelization of Michoacan, and of later writings using them, can challenge traditional celebratory interpretations of missionary activity in early colonial Mexico.".

"The book offers a fresh look at religion, politics, and the writing of history by employing a poststructuralist method that engages the exclusions as well as the content of the historical record. The moments of doubt, contradiction, and ambiguity thereby uncovered lead to deconstructing a coherent conquest narrative that continues to resonate in our present age."--BOOK JACKET.