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Promiscuous power : an unorthodox history of New Spain / Martin Austin Nesvig.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nesvig, Martin Austin, 1968- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Inquisition.
- Church history.
- History.
- Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540.
- Mexico.
- Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
- New Spain--History.
- New Spain.
- Michoacán de Ocampo (Mexico)--History.
- Michoacán de Ocampo (Mexico).
- New Spain--Church history.
- Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo.
- MichoacaÌn de Ocampo (Mexico)--History.
- MichoacaÌn de Ocampo (Mexico).
- MichoacaÌn de Ocampo.
- Inquisition--New Spain.
- Genre:
- Church history.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- The conquest of MichoacaÌn, paradise's lost and found
- Burning down the house, in which the spiritual conquistadors go to war with each other
- "I shit on you, sir"; or, a rather unorthodox lot of catholics who didn't fear the Inquisition
- The Inquisition that wasn't there, in which the locals removed the Inquisition's agent from office and the inquisition gave up
- The crown's man : an "incorrigible delinquent," in which a bunch of sketchy and murderous dudes wrought havoc in Colima
- Caudillo priests, in which the locals triumphed and trampled the crown
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-233) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781477315828
- 1477315829
- 9781477315835
- 1477315837
- OCLC:
- 1006524535
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