The Mexican Mission - Indigenous Reconstruction and Mendicant Enterprise in New Spain, 1521–1600

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Conversion: 1. The burning temple: religion and conquest in Mesoamerica and the Iberian Atlantic, circa 1500; 2. Christening colonialism: the politics of conversion in post-conquest Mexico; Part II. Construction: 3. The staff, the lash, and the trumpet: the native infrastructure of the mission enterprise; 4. Paying for Thebaid: the colonial economy of a mendicant paradise; 5. Building in the shadow of death: monastery construction and the politics of community reconstitution; Part III. A Fraying Fabric: 6. The burning church: native and Spanish wars over the mission enterprise; 7. Hecatomb; Epilogue: Salazar's doubt: global echoes of the Mexican mission.

About the author

Ryan Dominic Crewe is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Denver.

Product details

• Authors: Ryan Dominic Crewe, Ryan Dominic (University of Colorado Crewe
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781108462921
• ISBN: 978-1-108-46292-1
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 566 g
• Illustrations: 14 b/w illus. 3 tables, Raster,schwarz-weiss, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss, Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies; Cambridge Latin American Studi
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Latin America, European History, Spain, Anthropology, HISTORY / Latin America / General, Christian mission & evangelism, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, Religious mission and Religious Conversion, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600