Ryan Dominic Crewe

Mexican Mission (eBook, ePUB)

Indigenous Reconstruction and Mendicant Enterprise in New Spain, 1521-1600

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108585392
• Artikelnr.: 62735466

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.