The Mexican mission : indigenous reconstruction and mendicant enterprise in New Spain, 1521-1600 / Ryan Dominic Crewe, University of Colorado, Denver.

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Crewe, Ryan Dominic, 1977- [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
  • ©2019
Description
xviii, 305 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

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    Cambridge Latin American studies ; 114. [More in this series]
    Summary note
    In the sixty years following the Spanish conquest, indigenous communities in central Mexico suffered the equivalent of three Black Deaths, a demographic catastrophe that prompted them to rebuild under the aegis of Spanish missions. Where previous histories have framed this process as an epochal spiritual conversion, The Mexican Mission widens the lens to examine its political and economic history, revealing a worldly enterprise that both remade and colonized Mesoamerica. The mission exerted immense temporal power in struggles over indigenous jurisdictions, resources, and people. Competing communities adapted the mission to their own designs; most notably, they drafted labor to raise ostentatious monastery complexes in the midst of mass death. While the mission fostered indigenous recovery, it also grounded Spanish imperial authority in the legitimacy of local native rule. The Mexican mission became one of the most extensive in early modern history, with influences reverberating on Spanish frontiers from New Mexico to Mindanao.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-293) and index.
    Contents
    • Conversion
    • The burning temple: religion and conquest in Mesoamerica and the Iberian Atlantic, circa 1500
    • Christening colonialism: the politics of conversion in post-conquest Mexico
    • Construction
    • The staff, the lash, and the trumpet: the native infrastructure of the mission enterprise
    • Paying for Thebaid: the colonial economy of a mendicant paradise
    • Building in the shadow of death: monastery construction and the politics of community reconstitution
    • A fraying fabric
    • The burning church: native and Spanish wars over the mission enterprise
    • Hecatomb
    • Salazarʹs doubt: global echoes of the Mexican mission.
    ISBN
    • 9781108492546 (hardcover)
    • 1108492541 (hardcover)
    • 9781108462921 (paperback)
    • 1108462928 (paperback)
    LCCN
    2018051120
    OCLC
    1084621718
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