The Mexican mission: indigenous reconstruction and mendicant enterprise in New Spain, 1521-1600
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 spir...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2019
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Cambridge Latin American studies
Year: 2019 |
| Series/Journal: | Cambridge Latin American studies
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
New Spain
/ Mission (international law
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| Further subjects: | B
Mexico ; History ; Spanish colony, 1540-1810 ; Missions
B Mexico ; History ; Spanish colony, 1540-1810 ; Church history B Mexico History Missions Spanish colony, 1540-1810 B Mexico History Church history Spanish colony, 1540-1810 |
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| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Jun 2019) |
| ISBN: | 1108602312 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/9781108602310 |