People and Issues in Latin American History

, by Hanke, Lewis; Rausch, Jane M.

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ISBN: 9781558762343 | 1558762345
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 3/1/2000

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Preface to the Second Edition

SECTION I: Columbus and the Transit of Civilization

(60)

The Iberian Background

Brazil's Portuguese Heritage Should Not Be Forgotten

(8)

Stuart B. Schwartz

Spain During the Reconquest

(5)

Derek W. Lomax

The Conquest of the Canary Islands

(5)

Felipe Fernandez-Arnesto

Christopher Columbus: Man and Myth

``I have found many islands, inhabited by numberless people''

(8)

Christopher Columbus

His Place in History

(9)

John Noble Wilford

From Hemisphere to Hemisphere

The Effect of the American Conquests on Europe

(9)

William D. Phillips Jr.

Carla Rahn Phillips

The Disastrous Effects of European Diseases in the New World

(10)

Alfred W. Crosby

SECTION II: Was Inca Rule Tyrannical?

(38)

Favorable Assessments

How the Incas Achieved So Much

(4)

Pedro Cieza De Leon

Spaniards Corrupted an Ideal Indian Society

(3)

Mancio Sierra De Leguizamo

``The Incas Had Attained to a High State of Perfection. No Thoughtful Man Can Fail to Admire So Noble and Provident a Government''

(7)

Garcilaso De La Vega

The Spanish Justification for Conquest

Viceroy Francisco de Toledo's Attack on Inca Rule

(11)

Lewis Hanke

A Modern Interpretation

``The Incas Combined the Most Absolute Kind of Despotism with the Greatest Tolerance Toward the Social and Political Order of Its Subject Peoples''

(6)

Alfred Metraux

SECTION III: Patterns of Conquest

(44)

Hispaniola

``They Slaughtered Anyone and Everyone in Their Path''

102

(3)

Bartolome De Las Casas

Mesoamerica

The True History of the Conquest of Mexico

105

(8)

Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

The Grief of the Conquered: ``Broken Spears Lie in the Roads''

113

(10)

Miguel Leon Portilla

``The Conquest of Mexico was Not the Victory of a Spanish Juggernaut''

123

(4)

Ross Hassig

The Conquest of Yucatan

127

(6)

Inga Clendinnen

The South American Frontier

``The Men Became So Weak that All the Tasks Fell on the Poor Women''

133

(3)

Dona Isabel De Guevara

In Fighting Ability, the Araucanians Soon Surpassed the Spaniards

136

(7)

Louis De Armond

SECTION IV: The Spanish Struggle for Justice

143

(46)

The First Cry for Justice

The Sermons of Friar Antonio de Montesinos, 1511

147

(3)

Lewis Hanke

Fundamental Laws

Inter Caetera, the Papal Bull of 1493

150

(3)

The Requirement, 1513, a Most Remarkable Document

153

(3)

The New Laws, 1542

156

(5)

Royal Ordinances on ``Pacification,'' 1573

161

(3)

The Valladolid Debate

``War Against These Barbarians Can Be Justified''

164

(5)

Juan Gines De Sepulveda

In Defense of the Indians

169

(6)

Bartolome De Las Casas

Interpretations

Spanish Exploitation of Indians in Central Mexico

175

(6)

Charles Gibson

The Dawn of Conscience in America

181

(8)

Lewis Hanke

SECTION V: The Introduction of African Slavery in Spanish America

189

(40)

The Atlantic Slave Trade

``The Greatest Involuntary Migration in Western History''

195

(7)

Ann M. Pescatello

Alonso de Sandoval, The First Advocate of Black Studies in America

202

(8)

Norman Meiklejohn

Slavery in Spanish America

A Black Conquistador in Mexico

210

(4)

Peter Gerhard

Africans in Sixteenth-Century Peru

214

(8)

James Lockhart

Slave Resistance

Negro Slave Control and Resistance in Colonial Mexico

222

(7)

David M. Davidson

SECTION VI: Antonio Vieira and the Crises of Seventeenth-Century Brazil

229

(48)

The ``Babylonian Captivity''

Brazil Under Spanish Rule, 1580--1640

234

(8)

Stuart B. Schwartz

The Dutch in Brazil

The Humanist Prince Johan Maurits in Recife, 1637--1644

242

(9)

Charles R. Boxer

The Sermons and Letters of Antonio Vieira

Sermon Condemning Indian Slavery, 1653

251

(6)

Sermon for Sexagesima Sunday, Preached in the Royal Chapel, Lisbon, 1655

257

(3)

Letter to King Alfonso VI of Portugal, April 20, 1657

260

(4)

Report on the Conversion of the Nheengaibas, Letter to Alfonso VI, November 28, 1659

264

(5)

The African Threat

Palmares: An African Threat in Brazil

269

(8)

Raymond K. Kent

SECTION VII: The Development of Society

277

(60)

The Position of Women

Isabel Moctezuma: Pioneer of Mestizaje

282

(9)

Donald Chipman

Spanish Women of the Second Generation in Peru

291

(12)

James Lockhart

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: ``The Supreme Poet of Her Time in Castilian''

303

(11)

Irving A. Leonard

The Texture of Urban Life

Class and Caste in Eighteenth Century Quito

314

(5)

Jorge Juan

Antonio De Ulloa

The Imperial City of Potosi, Boom Town Supreme

319

(8)

Lewis Hanke

The Bay of All Saints

327

(10)

Charles R. Boxer

SECTION VIII: Crisis and Climax in the Eighteenth Century

337

(32)

The Revolt of Tupac Amaru in Peru

The Last Incan Rebellion

340

(6)

Luis Martin

Documents from the Revolt of Tupac Amaru

346

(7)

Benjamin Keen

A Modern Interpretation

353

(4)

Ward Stavig

Mexico

The Reorganization of the Army

357

(5)

Lyle N. McAlister

Problems and Progress in Mexico

362

(7)

Alexander von Humboldt

SECTION IX: Historical Interpretations

369

(17)

A Seventeenth-Century Defense of Spanish Treatment of the Indians

373

(4)

Juan De Solorzano Y Pereyra

The Three Centuries of Spanish Rule in America Should not be Characterized as a ``Tyranny'' or as ``Oppressive''

377

(5)

Philip W. Powell

The Pre-eminent Social Legacy of Colonialism was the Degradation of the Labor Force, Indian and Negro, Everywhere in Latin America

382

(4)

Stanley J.

Barbara H. Stein

The Fall of the Spanish American Empire

386

R. A. Humphreys

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People and Issues in Latin American History

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