Peter B. Villella

Indigenous Elites and Creole Identity in Colonial Mexico, 1500-1800

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores colonial indigenous historical accounts to offer a new interpretation of the origins of Mexico's neo-Aztec patriotic identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 749g
• ISBN-13: 9781107129030
• ISBN-10: 1107129036
• Artikelnr.: 44037194

Autorenporträt

Peter B. Villella is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The natural lords: asserting continuity, 1531-66
3. Cacique informants and early Spanish texts, 1535-80
4. Cacique-chroniclers and the origins of Creole historiography, 1580-1640
5. Cacique-hidalgos: envisioning ancient roots in the mature colony
6. Cacique-patrons: Mexicanizing the Church
7. Cacique-letrados: an Indian gentry after 1697
8. Cacique-ambassadors and the 'Indian nation' in Bourbon Mexico
9. Conclusion.