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Michoacán and Eden
Don Vasco de Quiroga (1470-1565) was the first bishop of Michoacán in Western Mexico. Driven by the desire to convert the native Purhépecha-Chichimec peoples to a purified form of Christianity, free of the corruptions of European Catholicism, he sought to establish New World Edens in Michoacán by congregating the people into pueblo-hospital communities, where mendicant friars could more easily teach them the fundamental beliefs of Christianity and the values of Spanish culture. In this broadly synthetic study, Bernardino Verástique explores Vasco de Quiroga's evangelizing project in its full cultural and historical context. He begins by recreating the complex and not wholly incompatible ...
Sepúlveda on the Spanish Invasion of the Americas
This volume presents the first full English translation of four key texts from the dispute between Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda and Bartolomé de las Casas regarding the justice of Spain's invasion of the Americas, culminating in their famous debate in Valladolid in 1550-51. An impassioned defence of the invasion, Sepúlveda's Democrates secundus (composed around 1544) amplified the controversy within Spain about the justice of its activities in the Americas. When Las Casas schemed to block publication of Sepúlveda's manuscript, Sepúlveda wrote an Apologia (1550) in its defence. Tensions were so high that Emperor Charles V called a temporary halt to undertakings in the Americas and convoked a...
Cálcelo sin compromiso. El arte de la zapatería en el barrio Restrepo en Bogotá
¡Cálcelo, sin compromiso! es un libro sobre la producción de calzado en el Restrepo —como se conoce popularmente al barrio Carlos E. Restrepo—, en tanto práctica que ha informado los códigos culturales desde los cuales se habita el territorio local. Se trata de una publicación que hace parte de los títulos dedicados a barrios de la capital, senda que se inició a partir de La Magdalena: consolidación urbana de una antigua quinta (2017) y De la Divina Providencia al esplendor del Jorge Eliécer de Gaitán (2020). A diferencia de las publicaciones sobre los barrios La Magdalena y Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, centradas en la configuración urbana y la reconstrucción histórica de los lu...
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture
Strives to organize knowledge of the region. It contains nearly 5,300 separate articles. Most topics appear in English alphabetical order.
Empires of God
Religion and empire were inseparable forces in the early modern Atlantic world. Religious passions and conflicts drove much of the expansionist energy of post-Reformation Europe, providing both a rationale and a practical mode of organizing the dispersal and resettlement of hundreds of thousands of people from the Old World to the New World. Exhortations to conquer new peoples were the lingua franca of Western imperialism, and men like the mystically inclined Christopher Columbus were genuinely inspired to risk their lives and their fortunes to bring the gospel to the Americas. And in the thousands of religious refugees seeking asylum from the vicious wars of religion that tore the continent...
The Presidio and Militia on the Northern Frontier of New Spain: 1570-1700
Reports, orders, journals, and letters of military officials trace frontier history through the Chicimeca War and Peace (1576-1606), early rebellions in the Sierra Madre (1601-1618), mid-century challenges and realignment (1640-1660), and northern rebellions and new presidios (1681-1695).
