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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-
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English
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Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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xviii, 305 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
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BV2835.3 .C74 2019
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Mexico
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History
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Spanish colony, 1540-1810
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Missions
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Mexico
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History
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Spanish colony, 1540-1810
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Church history
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Series
Cambridge Latin American studies ; 114.
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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.
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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.
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ISBN
9781108492546 (hardcover)
1108492541 (hardcover)
9781108462921 (paperback)
1108462928 (paperback)
LCCN
2018051120
OCLC
1084621718
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