People and Issues in Latin American History

, by Hanke, Lewis; Rausch, Jane M.

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ISBN: 9781558760615 | 155876061X
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Copyright: 1/1/1993

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Section I The Transit of Civilization

(46)

THE PORTUGUESE BACKGROUND

Brazil's Portuguese Heritage Should Not Be Forgotten

(8)

Stuart B. Schwartz

THE SPANISH BACKGROUND

Spain Transmitted to America Many of Her Medieval Accomplishments

(7)

Luis Weckmann

The New World Was a Place of Wonder and Enchantment Populated with Mysterious and Bewildering People

(5)

Lewis Hanke

Spaniards Brought Animals, Fruits, Vegetables, and All Manner of Plants

(7)

James A. Robertson

THE INFLUENCE OF THE NEW WORLD ON THE OLD

The Impact of America on Europe Was Complex and Uncertain

(11)

J. H. Elliott

Section II Was Inca Rule Tyrannical?

(34)

FAVORABLE ASSESSMENTS

How the Incas Achieved So Much

(3)

Pedro Cieza De Leon

Spaniards Corrupted an Ideal Indian Society

(2)

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''

(6)

Garcilaso De La Vega

THE SPANISH JUSTIFICATION FOR CONQUEST

Viceroy Francisco de Toledo's Attack on Inca Rule

(10)

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

(7)

Alfred Metraux

Section III Relations Between Indians and Spaniards

(54)

THE FIRST CRY FOR JUSTICE IN AMERICA

The Sermons of Friar Antonio de Montesinos, 1511

(2)

A FUNDAMENTAL LAW

The Requirement, 1513, a Most Remarkable Document

(3)

THE SHOCK OF CONQUEST

The True History of the Conquest of Mexico

(8)

Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

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

100

(9)

Miguel Leon Portilla

Francisco Pizarro and His Men on the Road to Cuzco, 1533

109

(6)

John Hemming

INDIAN WOMEN AND SPANISH MEN

The Conquest of Women

115

(5)

Magnus Morner

INTERPRETATIONS

A Seventeenth-Century Defense of Spanish Treatment of the Indians

120

(3)

Juan De Solorzano Y Pereyra

Spanish Exploitation of Indians in Central Mexico

123

(6)

Charles Gibson

The Dawn of Conscience in America

129

(8)

Lewis Hanke

Section IV Population Questions

137

(32)

WHY THE INDIAN POPULATION DECLINED

The Disastrous Effects of Disease

141

(9)

Alfred W. Crosby

Why So Many Indians Died in Mexico and What Effects This Had Upon Their Life and Upon the Building of Churches

150

(9)

George Kubler

The Introduction of Vaccination Against Smallpox to Spanish America

159

(5)

Sherburne F. Cook

POPULATION ESTIMATES

Why Population Estimates Are Important in the Interpretation of Mexican History

164

(5)

Woodrow Borah

Sherburne F. Cook

Section V The Introduction of African Slavery in Spanish America

169

(40)

THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE

``The Greatest Involuntary Migration in Western History''

175

(7)

Ann M. Pescatello

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

182

(7)

Norman Meiklejohn

SLAVERY IN SPANISH AMERICA

A Black Conquistador in Mexico

189

(3)

Peter Gerhard

Africans in Sixteenth-Century Peru

192

(8)

James Lockhart

SLAVE RESISTANCE

Negro Slave Control and Resistance in Colonial Mexico

200

(9)

David M. Davidson

Section VI The Crises of Seventeenth-Century Brazil

209

(48)

THE ``BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY''

Brazil Under Spanish Rule, 1580--1640

213

(7)

Stuart B. Schwartz

THE DUTCH IN BRAZIL

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

220

(9)

C. R. Boxer

THE AFRICAN THREAT

Palmares: An African Threat in Brazil

229

(8)

R. K. Kent

INDIAN PROBLEMS

Sermon Condemning Indian Slavery, 1653: Report on the Conversion of the Nheengaibas, Letter to Alfonso VI, 1659

237

(10)

Antonio Vieira

The Indian Policy of Portugal in America

247

(10)

Mathias C. Kiemen

Section VII The Development of Society

257

(60)

WOMEN

Spanish Women of the Second Generation in Peru

261

(12)

James Lockhart

Dowries Helped to Reduce Domestic Instability, Illegitimacy, and Prostitution in Bahia

273

(6)

A. J. R. Russell-Wood

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

279

(10)

Irving A. Leonard

ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, RACIAL, AND SOCIAL TENSIONS

Riots in Seventeenth-Century Mexico City

289

(10)

Chester Lyle Guthrie

Tensions Between Spanish- and Spanish-American-Born Friars in Seventeenth-Century Peru

299

(8)

Antonine Tibesar

THE TEXTURE OF URBAN LIFE

The Imperial City of Potosi, Boom Town Supreme

307

(10)

Lewis Hanke

Section VIII Crisis and Climax in the Eighteenth Century

317

(30)

A NINETEENTH-CENTURY OBSERVER

Problems and Progress in Mexico

321

(6)

Alexander Von Humboldt

MODERN INTERPRETATIONS

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

327

(4)

Stanley J.

Barbara H. Stein

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

331

(5)

Philip W. Powell

The Fall of the Spanish-American Empire

336

(11)

R. A. Humphreys

Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing

347

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