Ebook: Colonial Spanish America: a documentary history

Title Page; Copyright Page; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Table of Contents; EDITORS' NOTE; Table of Figures; INTRODUCTION -- Texts and Images for Colonial History; PART I -- Old Worlds and the Time of Discoveries; 1 -- The Ancestors of the People Called Indians; 2 -- The Inka's Tunics; 3 -- The Lords and Holy Men of Tenochtitlan Reply to the Franciscans, 1524; 4 -- The Aztec Stone of the Five Eras; 5 -- Coexistence in the Medieval Spanish Kingdoms; 6 -- The Coming of the White People; 7 -- Orders Given to "the Twelve"; 8 -- Francisco de Vitoria on the Evangelization of Unbelievers, Salamanca, Spain.;Colonial Spanish America is a book of readings about people-people from different worlds who came together to form a society by chance and by design in the years after 1492. The book is meant to enrich, not repeat, the work of existing texts on this period, and its focus on people makes it stand out from other books that have concentrated on the political and economic aspects of the culture. This text provides a detailed look at the cultural development of colonial Latin America using readings, documents, historical analysis, and visual materials, including photographs, drawings, and paintings.