Ambivalent Conquests

by Clendinnen, Inga

• ISBN13: 9780521379816
• ISBN10: 0521379814
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-02-01
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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.

Author Biography

Inga Clendinnen is Emeritus Scholar in History at La Trobe University

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	viii	(1)
Preface	ix	(2)
Acknowledgments	xi
Part I: Spaniards	1	(128)
1 Explorers	3	(17)
2 Conquerors	20	(18)
3 Settlers	38	(7)
4 Missionaries	45	(12)
5 Conflict	57	(15)
6 Crisis	72	(21)
7 Attrition	93	(19)
8 Retrospections	112	(15)
Epilogue: The hall of mirrors	127	(2)
Part II: Indians	129	(64)
9 Finding out	131	(8)
10 Connections	139	(15)
11 Continuities	154	(7)
12 Assent	161	(29)
Epilogue: Confusion of tongues	190	(3)
Appendix: A sampler of documents	193	(15)
Diego de Landa's indictment of the Sotuta Indians	193	(2)
The confessions	195	(13)
Glossary of Spanish and Maya terms	208	(2)
Notes	210	(18)
Select bibliography	228	(12)
Index	240