Negotiation within domination : New Spain's Indian pueblos confront the Spanish state / edited by Ethelia Ruiz Medrano and Susan Kellogg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ruiz Medrano, Ethelia.

Kellogg, Susan.

Series:

Mesoamerican worlds.

Mesoamerican worlds : from the Olmecs to the Danzantes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of Mexico--Government relations--History.

Indians of Mexico.

Indians, Treatment of--Mexico--History.

Indians, Treatment of.

Government, Resistance to--Mexico.

Government, Resistance to.

Mexico--Ethnic relations.

Mexico.

Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810.

Spain--Colonies--America--Administration.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : University Press of Colorado, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Negotiation within Domination examines the formation of colonial governance in New Spain through interactions between indigenous peoples and representatives of the Spanish Crown. The book highlights the complexity of native negotiation and mediation with colonial rule across time, culture, and place and how it shaped colonial political and legal structures from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Although indigenous communities reacted to Spanish presence with significant acts of resistance and rebellion, they also turned to negotiation to deal with conflicts and ameliorate the cons

Contents:

Introduction: back to the future : law, politics, and culture in colonial Mexican ethnohistorical studies / Susan Kellogg

Empire, Indians, and the negotiation for the status of city in Tlaxcala, 1521-1550 / R. Jovita Baber

Fighting destiny : Nahua nobles and friars in the sixteenth-century revolt of the encomenderos against the king / Ethelia Ruiz Medrano

Indigenous centurions and triumphal arches : negotiation in eighteenth-century Mexico City / Edward W. Osowski

The power of the law : the construction of colonial power in an indigenous region / María de los Ángeles Romero Frizzi

Costumbre : a language of negotiation in eighteenth-century Oaxaca / Yanna P. Yannakakis

Peace agreements and war signals : negotiations with the Apaches and Comanches in the interior provinces of New Spain, 1784-1788 / Cuauhtemoc Velasco Ávila

Waterways, legal ways, and ethnic interactions : the Ríos District of Tabasco during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Jose Manuel A. Chávez-Gómez

Afterword: the consequences of negotiation / Susan Kellogg.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4571-1086-5

1-60732-033-9

OCLC:

775301669