Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History is a sourcebook of
primary texts and images intended for students and teachers as well
as for scholars and general readers. The book centers upon
people-people from different parts of the world who came together
to form societies by chance and by design in the years after 1492.
This text is designed to encourage a detailed exploration of the
cultural development of colonial Latin America through a wide
variety of documents and visual materials, most of which have been
translated and presented originally for this collection.
Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History is a revision of
SR Books' popular Colonial Spanish America. The new edition
welcomes a third co-editor and, most significantly, embraces
Portuguese and Brazilian materials. Other fundamental changes
include new documents from Spanish South America, the addition of
some key color images, plus six reference maps, and a decision to
concentrate entirely upon primary sources.
The book is meant to enrich, not repeat, the work of existing
texts on this period, and its use of primary sources to focus upon
people makes it stand out from other books that have concentrated
on the political and economic aspects. The book's illustrations and
documents are accompanied by introductions which provide context
and invite discussion. These sources feature social changes,
puzzling developments, and the experience of living in Spanish and
Portuguese American colonial societies.
Religion and society are the integral themes of Colonial Latin
America. Religion becomes the nexus for much of what has been
treated as political, social, economic, and cultural history during
this period. Society is just as inclusive, allowing students to
meet a variety of individuals-not faceless social groups.
While some familiar names and voices are included-conquerors,
chroniclers, sculptors, and preachers-other, far less familiar
points of view complement and complicate the better-known
narratives of this history. In treating Iberia and America, before
as well as after their meeting, apparent contradictions emerge as
opportunities for understanding; different perspectives become
prompts for wider discussion. Other themes include exploration and
contact; religious and cultural change; slavery and society,
miscegenation, and the formation, consolidation, reform, and
collapse of colonial institutions of government and the Church, as
well as accompanying changes in economies and labor.
This sourcebook allows students and teachers to consider the
thoughts and actions of a wide range of people who were making
choices and decisions, pursuing ideals, misperceiving each other,
experiencing disenchantment, absorbing new pressures, breaking
rules as well as following them, and employing strategies of
survival which might involve both reconciliation and opposition.
Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History has been assembled
with teaching and class discussion in mind. The book will be an
excellent tool for Latin American history survey courses and for
seminars on the colonial period.
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