Guides: Colonial Latin America: Secondary sources

Books on Colonial Latin American History

Cambridge Encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean by Simon Collier (Editor); Thomas E. Skidmore (Editor); Harold Blakemore (Editor)
Call Number: F1406 C36 1992 Hillman Library - General Collection
ISBN: 0521413222
Cambridge History of Latin America by Leslie Bethell (Editor)
The Cambridge History of Latin America is an authoritative large-scale history of the whole of Latin America - Mexico and Central America, the Spanish-speaking Caribbean (and Haiti), Spanish South America and Brazil - from the first contacts between the native American Indians and Europeans in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the present day. Each volume examines a period in the economic, social, political, intellectual and cultural history of Latin America.

v. 1. Colonial Latin America
v. 2. Colonial Latin America
v.3. From Independence to c. 1890
v. 4. c. 1870 to 1930
v. 5. c. 1870 to1930
v. 6. Latin America since 1930: Economy, society and politics
v. 7. Latin America since 1930: Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean
v. 8. Latin America since 1930: Spanish South America
v. 9. Latin America since 1930: Brazil; International relations
v. 10. Latin America since 1930: Ideas, culture and society
v. 11. Bibliographical essays.
In the Palace of Nezahualcoyotl by Eduardo de J. Douglas
Call Number: F1219.56.C642 D684 Hillman Library - General Collection Also available Online
This book presents a detailed critical analysis and historical contextualization of the manuscripts to argue that colonial economic, political, and social concerns affected both the content of the three Tetzcocan pictorial histories and their archaizing pictorial form. As documents composed by indigenous people to assert their standing as legitimate heirs of the Aztec rulers as well as loyal subjects of the Spanish Crown and good Catholics, the Tetzcocan manuscripts qualify as subtle yet shrewd negotiations between indigenous and Spanish systems of signification and between indigenous and Spanish concepts of real property and political rights.
Popol Vuh by Allen J. Christenson
Call Number: F1465 .P817 2003 Hillman Library - General Collection
The Popol Vuh is the most important example of Maya literature to have survived the Spanish conquest and is one of the world's greatest accounts of the creation. It describes the live creative attempts to form beings who could speak intelligently, remember their creators, and offer them appropriate words of reverence. The fruit of ten years research, this free translation with extensive notes by a leading scholar of Maya literature and art brings out the richness and elegance of this sublime work of literature, comparable with other great epic, poems of the ancient world such as the Ramayana and Mahabharat of India or the Iliad and Odyssey of Greece.
Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You by José Rabasa
Call Number: F1219.56.C627 R33 2011 Also Available Online
ISBN: 9780292728752
Applying contemporary intellectual perspectives, including aspects of gender, modernity, nation, and visual representation, José Rabasa reveals new perspectives on colonial order. Folio 46r becomes a metaphor for reading the totality of the codex and for reflecting on the post-colonial theoretical issues now brought to bear on the past.
Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl: the once and future lord of the Toltecs by H. B. Nicholson
Call Number: F1219.76.R45 N53 Hillman Library - General Collection
ISBN: 0870815474

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