Conquistador in chains : Cabeza de Vaca and the Indians of the Americas / David A. Howard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howard, David A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century.

Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar.

Indians of North America--First contact with other peoples.

Indians of North America.

Explorers--Spain--Biography.

Explorers.

Explorers--America--Biography.

America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish.

America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 259 p. ) maps ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University of Alabama Press, [1997]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A fascinating account of a Spanish conquistador who attempted to rule in South America with respect for justice and law for indigenous peoples but was returned to Spain in chains Unlike many Spanish conquistadores who brought to the Americas a wave of disease, destruction, and oppression, Cabeza de Vaca's stated intention was to pursue a.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Maps

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Seeing the Poorness of the Land

2. So Miserable an Existence

3. We Left the Whole Land in Peace

4. To Lead all These Peoples to Be Christians

5. Not to Go under Another's Banner

6. To Conquer and Pacify and Populate the Lands

7. To Look for a Way through the Continent

8. The Good Treatment That Was Done to Them

9. As Was Customary in the Kingdom of Spain

10. The Paradise of Muhammad

11. Christians and Vassals of His Majesty

12. They Would Go from the Land and Leave Them Free

13. That They Might Be the Governors and Not He

14. Before They and Their Souls Are Lost

15. To See If I Could Find the Gold and Silver

16. A Land That Was Newly Discovered

17. Uninhabited and Uninhabitable

18. Everyone Was Dying of Hunger

19. Only What Was Needed

20. That He Might Not Discover Gold and Silver

21. Liberty! Liberty!

22. I Am the King and Ruler of This Land

23. No Man Was Safe from the Other

24. To Discredit Me with His Majesty

25. He Was a Very Good Governor

26. If He Were to Go on as He Began

27. A Completely Poor Caballero

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-254) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8173-9170-3

0-585-26561-5

OCLC:

1132226772