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Indigenous Agency in Colonial Spanish America

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

R. Douglas Cope*
Affiliation:
Brown University
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References

1. Miguel León Portilla, ed., The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico, foreword by J. Jorge Klor de Alva, updated and expanded ed. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992); Nathan Wachtel, The Vision of the Vanquished: The Spanish Conquest through Indian Eyes, 1530–1570, trans. Ben Reynolds and Siân Reynolds (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1977).

2. See Olivia Harris, “The Coming of the White People: Reflections on the Mythologisation of Latin American History,” Bulletin of Latin American Research 14, no. 1 (1995): 9–24.

3. Louise M. Burkhart, The Slippery Earth: Nahua-Christian Moral Dialogue in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1989), esp. 15–45.

4. This is best exemplified in Ross Hassig, Mexico and the Spanish Conquest, 2nd ed. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006).

5. Matthew Restall, Maya Conquistador (Boston: Beacon Press, 1998).

6. For example, Jane E. Mangan, Trading Roles: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosí (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005); Kimberly Gauderman, Women's Lives in Colonial Quito: Gender, Law, and the Economy in Spanish America (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003).