Colonial Spanish America: a documentary history

PART I

Old Worlds and the Time of Discoveries; 1

The Ancestors of the People Called Indians; 2

The Inka's Tunics; 3

The Lords and Holy Men of Tenochtitlan Reply to the Franciscans, 1524; 4

The Aztec Stone of the Five Eras; 5

Coexistence in the Medieval Spanish Kingdoms; 6

The Coming of the White People; 7

Orders Given to "the Twelve"; 8

Francisco de Vitoria on the Evangelization of Unbelievers, Salamanca, Spain.; 9

Two Woodcuts Accompanying a 1509 German Translation of Amerigo Vespucci's Letter to Pietro Soderini10

Christoph Weiditz's Drawing of an Indian Woman of Mexico; 11

Christoph Weiditz's Drawing of a Morisco Woman and Her Daughter at Home;

PART II

The Americas as New Worlds for All?; 12

Fray Pedro de Gante's Letter to Charles V, Mexico City; 13

The Evils of Cochineal, Tlaxcala, Mexico; 14

The Indian Pueblo of Texupa in Sixteenth-Century Mexico; 15

Fray Juan Izquierdo's Letter and Report to Charles V, Barcelona, Spain; 16

Alonso Ortiz's Letter to His Wife, Mexico City.; 17

Jerónimo de Benarcama's Letter to Francisco de Borja, Granada, Spain18

José de Acosta on the Salvation of the Indians; 19

Miguel Hernandez, Master of Mule Trains; 20

Two Images from the Codex Osuna, Mexico City; 21

Two Images from the Codex Sierra, Oaxaca, Mexico; 22

Fray Diego Valadés's Ideal Atrio and Its Activities; 23

The Huejotzingo Altarpiece, Mexico; 24

The Mulatto Gentlemen of Esmeraldas, Ecuador;

PART III

Spanish American Baroque in a Long Seventeenth Century; 25

Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's Appeal Concerning the Priests, Peru.; 26

Pedro de Leon Portocarrero's Description of Lima, Peru27

The Church and Monastery of San Francisco, Lima, Peru; 28

Beatriz de Padilla, Mulatta Mistress and Mother; 29

Fruits of the Faith in the Seventeenth Century; 30

Santa Rosa of Lima According to a Pious Accountant; 31

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's Letter to Sor Filotea; 32

Portraits of Santa Rosa and Sor Juana; 33

Mutilated Memory; 34

Francisco de Avila's Christmas Eve Sermon; 35

The Witness Francisco Poma y Altas Caldeas of San Pedro de Acas, Cajatambo, Peru.; 36

Crossing and Dome of the Rosary Chapel, Church of Santo Domingo, Puebla, Mexico37

Two Paintings of a Corpus Christi Procession in Cusco, Peru;

PART IV

Bourbon Rules and American Practices in a Short Eighteenth Century; 38

Nicolás Ñenguirú's Letter to the Governor of Buenos Aires; 39

José de Gálvez's Decrees for the King's Subjects in Mexico; 40

The Foundation of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe de los Morenos de Amapa, Mexico; 41

Concolorcorvo Engages the Postal Inspector about Indian Affairs, Lima, Peru; 42

Parish Priests and Indian Resistance in Late Colonial Mexico.; 43

Taxonomy of a Colonial "Riot."