Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570
by Inga Clendinnen
Cambridge Latin American Studies (61)
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This is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. Dr Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent Spanish visions of Yucatan and its destructive outcomes. She seeks to penetrate the ways of thinking and feeling of the Mayan Indians in a detailed reconstruction of their assessment of the intruders.Tags
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Inga Clendinnen was born in Geelong, Australia on August 17, 1934. She studied history at the University of Melbourne. She became a historian of Aztec and Mayan culture and society. She taught at the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University. She wrote numerous books during her lifetime including Reading the Holocaust, Tiger's Eye, Dancing show more with Strangers, and Agamemnon's Kiss. She died on September 8, 2016 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570
- Important places
- Mexico; Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico
- Important events
- Conquest of Mexico (1519); Conquest of Latin America
- Epigraph
- When the Spaniards discovered this land, their leader asked the Indians how it was called; as they did not understand him, they said uic athan, which means, what do you say or what do you speak, that we do not understa... (show all)nd you. And then the Spaniard ordered it set down that it be called Yucatan...
Antonio de Ciudad Real, 1588 - First words
- in 1502, on his fourth and final voyage, Christopher Columbus happened upon a great trading canoe just off the coast of Honduras.
- Blurbers
- Coe, Michael; Taylor, William; Farriss, Nancy
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, Anthropology, General Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality
- DDC/MDS
- 972.6502 — History & geography History of North America Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Bermuda Southern Gulf states Yucatán
- LCC
- F1376 .C55 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America Latin America. Spanish America Mexico
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- English
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