Inga Clendinnen

Ambivalent Conquests (eBook, PDF)

Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570

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Produktbeschreibung

This is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. Dr Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent Spanish visions of Yucatan and its destructive outcomes. She seeks to penetrate the ways of thinking and feeling of the Mayan Indians in a detailed reconstruction of their assessment of the intruders.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511252617
• Artikelnr.: 39935531

Autorenporträt

Inga Clendinnen is a distinguished historian of the Spanish encounters with Aztec and Maya indians of sixteenth-century America. Her Reading the Holocaust was named a New York Times best book of the year and awarded the NSW Premier's General History Award in 1999. Clendinnen's ABC Boyer Lectures, True Stories, were published in 2000, as was her award-winning memoir, Tiger's Eye. In 2003 Dancing With Strangers attracted wide critical acclaim. Her latest book is Agamemnon's Kiss: Selected Essays.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Spaniards: 1. Explorers
2. Conquerors
3. Settlers
4. Missionaries
5. Conflict
6. Crisis
7. Attrition
8. Retrospections
Epilogue. The hall of mirrors
Part II. Indians: 9. Finding out
10. Connections
11. Continuities
12. Assent
Epilogue. Confusion of tongues.

Rezensionen

'Ambivalent Conquests sets a high standard of elegance in style and argument.' Nancy Farriss, Hispanic American Historical Review 'This is a splendid book by a gifted historian.' Steve J. Stern, American Historical Review 'This is an intricate story, by turns exhilarating and depressing, of cultural interaction among parties whose motives were consciously and unconsciously at variance... Clendinnen's reconstruction is a model of historical intelligence and anthropological empathy couched in superbly crafted prose." Frederick P. Bowser, Latin American Research Review '[Clendinnen's] analysis of the symbolic forms of everyday life sheds new light on the relationship between the 'social' and the 'sacred'.' Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 'A worthwhile contribution.' Matthew Restall, UCLA Historical Journal