The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America
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The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America
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Description
This book tells the story of colonial Latin America through the lives of common people, helping students comprehend the triumphs and tragedies of daily life and its impact on the region's history.
Stretching from Mexico to Buenos Aires, from the Pacific coast across the Atlantic, from the first colonial invasions to independence, these stories knit together common themes. The narratives include a Mayan noblemen turned translator for a Spanish torturer, a Eurafrican woman healer accused of witchcraft, a missionary caught between native rebels and corrupt administrators, an Afro-Brazilian maroon leader trying to hold on to freedom, and a mestizo crown loyalist weary of independence under the new Creole elite.
This new edition provides vital updates and tackles new topics:
- Expanded scope to consider more trans-Atlantic and trans-regional individuals who gave colonial Latin America its uniquely wide-reaching cultural and geographic scope
- Spaces between different empires
- The complex role of religion and religious figures as cultural and political intermediaries
- An additional chapter bridging the pre-Columbian period to post-invasion colonial rule
- Updated terminology and historiography reflective of the changes in the field since the previous edition
While most texts for use in the classroom approach political, social, religious, and economic trends through top-down narratives, this volume demonstrates how the ordinary lives of Latin Americans shaped the region. These engaging, easy-to-read chapters help students understand the complex interaction of race, gender, ethnicity, and religiosity in the colonial setting.
Table of Contents
Introduction (Cameron D. Jones)
Part I: Transitions from an Indigenous to a Colonial Social Order, 1450–1600
1. Quecholcohuatzin: The Politics of Being a Drummer in the Aztec Empire (Peter Bjorndahl Sorensen)
2. Gaspar Antonio Chi: Bridging the Conquest of Yucatán (Matthew Restall)
3. Don Melchior Caruarayco: A Kuraka of Cajamarca in Sixteenth-Century Peru (Susan E. Ramírez)
4. Cacique don Enrique of Hispaniola: The First Maroon Rebellion in the Americas (Robert C. Schwaller)
5. Pablos Juan: The Curious Tale of a Portuguese Soldier in Sixteenth-Century St. Augustine, Florida (J. Michael Francis)
6. Domingos Fernandes Nobre: “Tomacauna,” a Go-Between in Sixteenth-Century Brazil (Alida C. Metcalf)
Part II: The Mature Colonial Order, 1600–1740
7. The Mysterious Catalina: “Indian” or “Spaniard”? (Noble David Cook)
8. Ursula de Jesús: A Seventeenth-Century Afro-Peruvian Mystic (Nancy E. van Deusen)
9. Agustina Ruiz: Sexuality and Religiosity in Colonial Mexico (Zeb Tortorici)
10. Zumbi of Palmares: Challenging the Portuguese Colonial Order (Mary Karasch)
11. Ana de Vega: Seventeenth-Century Afro-Mexican Healer (Joan Bristol)
Part III: Reform, Resistance, and Rebellion, 1740–1825
12. Píritu Franciscan Friar Pedro Cordero: Missionary, Linguist, and Indigenous Friend? (Kimberly J. Morse)
13. Manuel Joaquín Uriarte: A Jesuit Missionary in Amazonia His Diary, Letters, and Approach to Evangelization (1750–67) (Francismar Alex Lopes de Carvalho)
14. Pedro de Ayarza: The Purchase of Whiteness (Ann Twinam)
15. Don Manuel Cipriano de Melo: The Trans-Imperial Career of a Luso-Spaniard (Fabrício Prado)
16. Agustín Agualongo and the Royalist Cause in the Wars of Independence (Marcela Echeverri)
17. Angela Batallas: A Fight for Freedom in Guayaquil (Camilla Townsend)
Index
About the Editor and Contributors
Product details
| Published | 08 Jan 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 3rd |
| Extent | 352 |
| ISBN | 9798881803186 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 15 bw line art, 5 bw illustration and 2 bw photo |
| Series | The Human Tradition around the World series |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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