Indian conquistadors : indigenous allies in the conquest of Mesoamerica / edited by Laura E. Matthew and Michel R. Oudijk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Matthew, Laura E.

Oudijk, Michel R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of Central America--Government relations.

Indians of Central America.

History, Military.

New Spain--History, Military--16th century.

New Spain.

Indians of Mexico--Government relations.

Indians of Mexico.

Physical Description:

xiv, 349 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2007]

Summary:

Reassesses the first invasion of the New World

Contents:

Introduction : the genre of conquest studies / Susan Schroeder

Mesoamerican conquistadors in the sixteenth century / Michel R. Oudijk and Matthew Restall

The conquest in images : stories of Tlaxcalteca and Quauhquecholteca conquistadors / Florine G.L. Asselbergs

Whose conquest? : Nahua, Zapoteca, and Mixteca allies in the conquest of Central America / Laura E. Matthew

Concubines and wives : reinterpreting native-Spanish intimate unions in sixteenth-century Guatemala / Robinson A. Herrera

Conquest, coercion, and collaboration : Indian allies and the campaigns in Nueva Galicia / Ida Altman

Forgotten allies : the origins and roles of native Mesoamerican auxiliaries and indios conquistadores in the Conquest of Yucatan, 1526-1550 / John F. Chuchiak IV

The indios conquistadores of Oaxaca's Sierra Norte : from Indian conquerors to local Indians / Yanna Yannakakis

Nahua Christian warriors in the Mapa de Cuauhtlantzinco, Cholula Parish / Stephanie Wood

"By the force of their lives and the spilling of blood" : flechero service and political leverage on a Nueva Galicia frontier / Bret Blosser.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-346).

ISBN:

9780806138541

0806138548

OCLC:

105454617