Conquistadors
Subtitle: the struggle for colonial power in Latin America, 1492-1825
By: general editor, John Edwards ; project advisor, Nicholas Griffiths
Contributors: Scammell, Geoffrey Vaughn; British Library; Primary Source Microfilm (Firm)
Publisher: Primary Source Microfilm; British Library
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Woodbridge, Conn; London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 105
Subjects: Conquerors; Colonies; History; Maps; Discovery and exploration
Other titles: Conquistadors, the struggle for colonial power in Latin America, 1492-1825
Description: This collection features expedition records, original letters and maps of exploration and colonization, and "diaries of discoveries" from South America, from narratives of Columbus' first voyage (at Sloane Ms 1709) to the end of Colonial Spanish rule. The set covers European exploitation, evangelization, and botanical and geographical exploration in South America from Texas to Tierra del Fuego, and features maps, scrolls, descriptions of voyages by sea and river, terrain, flora and fauna, settlement posts, plantations and mines, missionary activities, and "diaries of discoveries."
Notes: Includes the British Library's "Venezuela Papers," a collection of 40 manuscript volumes of official letters and documents relating to the Spanish occupation of Trinidad, Margarita, Guiana, Venezuela and other adjacent provinces and islands and their differences there with the English, dating from 1530 to 1824.

Documents are by Hernán Cortés, Antonio O'Brien, Pedro de Rivera, Félix de Azara, Jaime Rasquin, Don Francisco de Bucareli y Ursúa, John Chilton, Field-Marshal James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawly, Henry Coventry, Viscount William Carr Beresford, Lieutenant General John Whitelocke, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, and many more.

Accompanying guide for reels 1-71 includes a publisher's foreword by Caroline Kimbell and an introduction by Dr. John Edwards as well as detailed contents of the reels.

"Edited by: Geoffrey Scammell"--Gale Group's Primary Source Microfilm website.

Territories represented include Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Florida, Guatemala, Guiana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Patagonia, Peru, Puerto Rico, Texas, Uruguay, Venezuela and the West Indies.

MicRR guide no.: 735.

Languages include Spanish, English, Portuguese, French and Italian. Also includes Bible translations in Quechua and other native languages and indigenous dramas and poems.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Egerton 771-3297, Sloane 159-4028, Stowe 168-921, Additional Ms. 11410, 11411, 12429 (30 reels); title: Part 2. Additional manuscripts 13967 (Galeotto Cey) - 35916 (Hardwicke papers) (41 reels); title: Part 3. (34 reels).