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The Mexican Mission - Indigenous Reconstruction and Mendicant Enterprise in New Spain, 1521-1600 (Paperback)
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The Mexican Mission - Indigenous Reconstruction and Mendicant Enterprise in New Spain, 1521-1600 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies
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In the sixty years following the Spanish conquest, indigenous
communities in central Mexico suffered the equivalent of three
Black Deaths, a demographic catastrophe that prompted them to
rebuild under the aegis of Spanish missions. Where previous
histories have framed this process as an epochal spiritual
conversion, The Mexican Mission widens the lens to examine its
political and economic history, revealing a worldly enterprise that
both remade and colonized Mesoamerica. The mission exerted immense
temporal power in struggles over indigenous jurisdictions,
resources, and people. Competing communities adapted the mission to
their own designs; most notably, they drafted labor to raise
ostentatious monastery complexes in the midst of mass death. While
the mission fostered indigenous recovery, it also grounded Spanish
imperial authority in the legitimacy of local native rule. The
Mexican mission became one of the most extensive in early modern
history, with influences reverberating on Spanish frontiers from
New Mexico to Mindanao.
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