Indigenous Elites and Creole Identity in Colonial Mexico, 1500-1800

ISBN-13: 9781107569614 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 367 str.

Peter B. Villella

Opis

This book explores colonial indigenous historical accounts to offer a new interpretation of the origins of Mexico's neo-Aztec patriotic identity.

Recenzje

'… deftly exposes how both indigenous elites and creoles selectively employed the historical past to serve the different needs of each body. … Villella's work is impressive in its use of archival sources to cast a brighter light on the myriad ways natives, and even creoles, engaged history to further their ambitions …' Mark Christensen, Latin American Research Review

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. The natural lords: asserting continuity, 1531–66; 3. Cacique informants and early Spanish texts, 1535–80; 4. Cacique-chroniclers and the origins of Creole historiography, 1580–1640; 5. Cacique-hidalgos: envisioning ancient roots in the mature colony; 6. Cacique-patrons: Mexicanizing the Church; 7. Cacique-letrados: an Indian gentry after 1697; 8. Cacique-ambassadors and the 'Indian nation' in Bourbon Mexico; 9. Conclusion.