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The Mexican Mission: Indigenous Reconstruction and Mendicant Enterprise in New Spain, 1521-1600

by Denver) Ryan Dominic Crewe (university Of Colorado

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 20.9 x 23.4 x 2.3 cm

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For historians and students of colonial Latin America

Unravels the impact of Spanish missions on indigenous lives

You will gain insights into the intersection of power and culture

The Mexican Mission explores the complex history of indigenous reconstruction in New Spain after the conquest.

In the sixty years following the Spanish conquest, indigenous communities in central Mexico suffered the equivalent of three Black Deaths, a demographic catastrophe that prompted them to rebuild under the aegis of Spanish missions. Where previous histories have framed this process as an epochal spiritual conversion, The Mexican Mission widens the lens to examine its political and economic history, revealing a worldly enterprise that both remade and colonized Mesoamerica. The mission exerted immense temporal power in struggles over indigenous jurisdictions, resources, and people. Competing communities adapted the mission to their own designs; most notably, they drafted labor to raise ostentatious monastery complexes in the midst of mass death. While the mission fostered indigenous recovery, it also grounded Spanish imperial authority in the legitimacy of local native rule. The Mexican mission became one of the most extensive in early modern history, with influences reverberating on Spanish frontiers from New Mexico to Mindanao.
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Living His Story TogetherThe Mexican Mission: Indigenous Reconstruction and Mendicant Enterprise in New Spain, 1521-1600

  • Title

    The Mexican Mission: Indigenous Reconstruction and Mendicant Enterprise in New Spain, 1521-1600

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    June 2019

  • Weight

    591g

  • Dimensions

    20.9 x 23.4 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781108492546

  • ISBN-10

    1108492541

  • Eden Code

    4968060