New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 322-334) and index.
- The Indians of Tejupan want to raise silk on their own (Oaxaca, Mexico, 1543) — Land concentration and environmental degradation : town council records on deforestation in Uyumbicho (Quito, 1553-96) — The telling of tales : a Spanish priest and his Maya parishioners (Yucatán, 1573-90) — Directorio para confesores : Lords who hold temporal government over vassals (Mexico, 1585) — In the Service of God, I order these temples of idolatrous worship razed to the ground : extirpation of idolatry and the search for the Santuario grande of Iguaque (Columbia, 1595) — Affairs of the courtroom : Fernando de Medina confesses to killing his wife (Charcas, 1595) — The spiritual and physical ecstasies of a sixteenth-century Beata : Marina de San Miguel confesses before the Mexican Inquisition (Mexico, 1598) — Spaniards in the Nahua countryside : Dr. Diego de León Plaza and Nahuatl land sale documents (Mexico, early seventeenth century) — Under investigation for the abominable sin : Damián de Morales stands accused of attempting to seduce Antón de Tierra de Congo (Charcas, 1611) — Wife of my soul and heart, and all my solace : annulment suit between Diego Andrés de Arenas and Ysabel Allay Suyo (Huánuco, Peru, 1618) — Favored women, subjected Indians : the settlement of Pero d’Araujo’s estate in São Paulo (1637-40) — Catarina María complains that Jean Teioa forcibly deflowered her (Mexico, 1693) — On her deathbed, María de la Candelaria accuses Michaela de Molina of casting spells (Guatemala, 1696) — Dance of the people : the chuchumbé (Mexico, 1766) — Drinking, gambling, and death on a colonial hacienda (Quito, 1768) — Letters of insurrection : the rebellion of the communities (Charcas, 1781) — Scandal at the church : José de Alfaro accuses Doña Theresa Bravo and others of insulting and beating his Castiza wife, Josefa Cadena (Mexico, 1782) — Don Manuel Valdivieso y Carrión protests the marriage of his daughter to Don Teodoro Ja
Subjects:
- Latin America — History — To 1830 — Sources.
- Latin America — History — 1830-1898 — Sources.
- Spain — Colonies — America — History — Sources.
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