Letters and People of the Spanish Indies: Sixteenth Century

by Edited by James Lockhart , Enrique Otte

• ISBN13: 9780521099905
• ISBN10: 0521099900
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1976-03-26
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The public and private letters of merchants which present a lively panorama of early life in Spanish-American society.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Part I: Conquest	1	(62)
1 Conquest in the personal view	2	(5)
2 A standard conqueror's report	7	(7)
3 The woman as conqueror	14	(3)
4 The merchant and the conquest of Peru	17	(7)
5 The merchant and the conquest of Mexico	24	(15)
6 The non-hero	39	(4)
7 The successful conqueror	43	(4)
8 The unsuccessful conqueror	47	(5)
9 The conqueror-governor	52	(4)
10 The conqueror in jail	56	(7)
Part II: The Variety of Life in the Indies	63	(110)
11 An encomendero's establishment	64	(6)
12 An encomendero's opinions	70	(13)
13 The miner	83	(3)
14 Commerce across the Atlantic	86	(27)
15 The professor of theology	113	(4)
16 The new arrival	117	(2)
17 The tanner and his wife	119	(4)
18 The troubadour	123	(5)
19 The nephew	128	(3)
20 The garden and the gate	131	(4)
21 The woman as settler	135	(3)
22 The farmer	138	(5)
23 The petty dealer	143	(3)
24 The Flemish tailors	146	(2)
25 The nobleman	148	(7)
26 The Hispanized Indian	155	(5)
27 Indian high society	160	(3)
28 An Indian town addresses the king	163	(10)
Part III: Officials and Clerics	173	(84)
29 How a governor operates	174	(11)
30 Alarm and drastic remedies: A viceroy's view of New Spain	185	(9)
31 The concerns of a judge	194	(9)
32 bishop and the governor	203	(4)
33 A bishop's affairs	207	(4)
34 Franciscans and the Indians	211	(4)
35 The Dominican attack	215	(3)
36 The Franciscan reply	218	(29)
37 The petty administrator	247	(5)
38 The parish priest	252	(5)
Bibliography	257	(4)
Index	261