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La Florida del Inca and the struggle for social equality in colonial Spanish America / Jonathan D. Steigman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steigman, Jonathan D., 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish--Early works to 1800.
- America.
- America--Early works to 1800--History and criticism.
- Florida--History--To 1565.
- Florida.
- Vega, Garcilaso de la, 1539-1616. Florida del Inca.
- Vega, Garcilaso de la.
- Soto, Hernando de, approximately 1500-1542.
- Soto, Hernando de.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (139 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A cross-disciplinary view of an important De Soto chronicle. Among the early Spanish chroniclers who contributed to popular images of the New World was the Amerindian-Spanish (mestizo) historian and literary writer, El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616). He authored several works, of which La Florida del Inca (1605) stands out as the best because of its unique Amerindian and European perspectives on the De Soto expedition (1539-1543). As the child of an Indian mother and a Spanish father, Garcilaso lived in both worlds--and saw value in each. Hailed throughout Europe
- Contents:
- Prelude
- Purpose, style, and themes of La Florida del Inca
- El Inca's Native Americans
- La Florida's ideal conquerors
- El Inca's prophetic voice.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [117]-120) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8432-4
- OCLC:
- 650060156
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