Ryan Dominic Crewe

The Mexican Mission

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Produktbeschreibung

Offers a social history of the Mexican mission enterprise, emphasizing the centrality of indigenous politics, economics, and demographic catastrophe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 685g
• ISBN-13: 9781108492546
• ISBN-10: 1108492541
• Artikelnr.: 54605120

Autorenporträt

Ryan Dominic Crewe is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Denver.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Conversion: 1. The burning temple: religion and
conquest in Mesoamerica and the Iberian Atlantic, circa 1500; 2.
Christening colonialism: the politics of conversion in post-conquest
Mexico; Part II. Construction: 3. The staff, the lash, and the trumpet: the
native infrastructure of the mission enterprise; 4. Paying for Thebaid: the
colonial economy of a mendicant paradise; 5. Building in the shadow of
death: monastery construction and the politics of community reconstitution;
Part III. A Fraying Fabric: 6. The burning church: native and Spanish wars
over the mission enterprise; 7. Hecatomb; Epilogue: Salazar's doubt: global
echoes of the Mexican mission.