Ambivalent conquests : Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570 / Inga Clendinnen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clendinnen, Inga, author.

Series:

Cambridge Latin American studies ; 61.

Cambridge Latin American studies ; 61

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mayas--First contact with other peoples.

Mayas.

Mayas--History--16th century.

Mayas--Cultural assimilation.

Indians, Treatment of--Yucatán Peninsula.

Indians, Treatment of.

Yucatán Peninsula--History.

Yucatán Peninsula.

Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540.

Mexico.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 245 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. Dr Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent Spanish visions of Yucatan and its destructive outcomes. She seeks to penetrate the ways of thinking and feeling of the Mayan Indians in a detailed reconstruction of their assessment of the intruders.

Contents:

Spaniards. Explorers ; Conquerors ; Settlers ; Missionaries ; Conflict ; Crisis ; Attrition ; Retrospections ; Epilogue : the hall of mirrors

Indians. Finding out ; Connections ; Continuities ; Assent ; Epilogue : confusion of tongues.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780511466106

0511466102

9781107501683

1107501687

9781139883061

1139883062

9781107500501

1107500508

9780521527316

0521527317

9781107505988

1107505984

9781107503304

1107503302

9781107516373

1107516374

9780511800528

0511800525

Publisher Number:

2027/heb02740 hdl