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Title Page
Copyright Page
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Table of Contents
EDITORS’ NOTE
Table of Figures
INTRODUCTION - Texts and Images for Colonial History
PART I - Old Worlds and the Time of Discoveries
1 - The Ancestors of the People Called Indians
2 - The Inka’s Tunics
3 - The Lords and Holy Men of Tenochtitlan Reply to the Franciscans, 1524
4 - The Aztec Stone of the Five Eras
5 - Coexistence in the Medieval Spanish Kingdoms
6 - The Coming of the White People
7 - Orders Given to “the Twelve”
8 - Francisco de Vitoria on the Evangelization of Unbelievers, Salamanca, Spain
9 - Two Woodcuts Accompanying a 1509 German Translation of Amerigo Vespucci’s Letter to Pietro Soderini
10 - Christoph Weiditz’s Drawing of an Indian Woman of Mexico
11 - Christoph Weiditz’s Drawing of a Morisco Woman and Her Daughter at Home
PART II - The Americas as New Worlds for All?
12 - Fray Pedro de Gante’s Letter to Charles V, Mexico City
13 - The Evils of Cochineal, Tlaxcala, Mexico
14 - The Indian Pueblo of Texupa in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
15 - Fray Juan Izquierdo’s Letter and Report to Charles V, Barcelona, Spain
16 - Alonso Ortiz’s Letter to His Wife, Mexico City
17 - Jerónimo de Benarcama’s Letter to Francisco de Borja, Granada, Spain
18 - José de Acosta on the Salvation of the Indians
19 - Miguel Hernandez, Master of Mule Trains
20 - Two Images from the Codex Osuna, Mexico City
21 - Two Images from the Codex Sierra, Oaxaca, Mexico
22 - Fray Diego Valadés’s Ideal Atrio and Its Activities
23 - The Huejotzingo Altarpiece, Mexico
24 - The Mulatto Gentlemen of Esmeraldas, Ecuador
PART III - Spanish American Baroque in a Long Seventeenth Century
25 - Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s Appeal Concerning the Priests, Peru
26 - Pedro de Leon Portocarrero’s Description of Lima, Peru
27 - The Church and Monastery of San Francisco, Lima, Peru
28 - Beatriz de Padilla, Mulatta Mistress and Mother
29 - Fruits of the Faith in the Seventeenth Century
30 - Santa Rosa of Lima According to a Pious Accountant
31 - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Letter to Sor Filotea
32 - Portraits of Santa Rosa and Sor Juana
33 - Mutilated Memory
34 - Francisco de Avila’s Christmas Eve Sermon
35 - The Witness Francisco Poma y Altas Caldeas of San Pedro de Acas, Cajatambo, Peru
36 - Crossing and Dome of the Rosary Chapel, Church of Santo Domingo, Puebla, Mexico
37 - Two Paintings of a Corpus Christi Procession in Cusco, Peru
PART IV - Bourbon Rules and American Practices in a Short Eighteenth Century
38 - Nicolás Ñenguirú’s Letter to the Governor of Buenos Aires
39 - José de Gálvez’s Decrees for the King’s Subjects in Mexico
40 - The Foundation of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe de los Morenos de Amapa, Mexico
41 - Concolorcorvo Engages the Postal Inspector about Indian Affairs, Lima, Peru
42 - Parish Priests and Indian Resistance in Late Colonial Mexico
43 - Taxonomy of a Colonial “Riot”
44 - Juan Francisco Domínguez’s Discourses on the Ten Commandments, Mexico
45 - Two Castas Paintings from Eighteenth-Century Mexico
46 - Late Eighteenth-Century Inscriptions on Fountains and Monuments in Mexico City
47 - Túpac Amaru I, Remembered
48 - “America Nursing Spanish Noble Boys,” Peru
49 - José María Morelos’s “Sentiments of the Nation,” Chilpancingo, Mexico
50 - The Argentine Declaration of Independence, San Miguel de Tucumán
GLOSSARY
NOTES ON SELECTIONS AND SOURCES
INDEX
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