Idea of a New General History of North America : An Account of Colonial Native Mexico / By Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci ; Translated and edited by Stafford Poole ; Foreword by Susan Schroeder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boturini Benaducci, Lorenzo, 1702-1751, author.

Contributor:

Poole, Stafford, editor, translator.

Standardized Title:

Idea de una nueva historia general de la América Septentrional. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Indians of Mexico--Antiquities.

Indians of Mexico.

Indians of Mexico--Early works to 1800.

History.

Mexico--History--Early works to 1800.

Mexico.

Genre:

Early works.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 288 pages : illustration ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2015]

Contents:

The excellence of the history of New Spain

Procedure in writing this history

First age

Second age

Divine heroic symbols of the planets

Divine heroic symbols of the days of the year

The days are the following

Divine heroic symbols of the months

Symbols of the Indian months, according to Father Fray Martin de Leon

Symbols of the Indian months, according to Gemelli Careri

Divine heroic nocturnal symbols of the year

Other examples of transformations as means of reward and punishment

Heroic military symbols

Heroic political symbols

Of the knots and songs, both historical and poetic

Origin of the Indians of New Spain

On the passage and crossing that the Indians of New Spain took to arrive there

Giants

The Olmec and Xicalanco Indians

The Toltec Indians

Third age

The Chichimeca Indians

The Tepanec Indians

The Mexican Indians

The Teochichimeca Indians

Conquest by the Spaniards

Observations on what has been said

The usefulness that this work can produce.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-280) and index.

ISBN:

9780806148335

0806148330

OCLC:

908374669