Volume 13 of the Handbook of Middle American Indians, published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909-1979), constitutes Part 2 of the Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources. The Guide has been assembled under the volume editorship of the late Howard F. Cline, Director of the Hispanic Foundation in the Library of Congress, with Charles Gibson, John B. Glass, and H. B. Nicholson as associate volume editors. It covers geography and ethnogeography (Volume 12); sources in the European tradition (Volume 13); and sources in the native tradition (Volumes 14 and 15). The present volume contains the following studies on sources in the European tradition:"Published Collections of Documents Relating to Middle American Ethnohistory," by Charles Gibson"An Introductory Survey of Secular Writings in the European Tradition on Colonial Middle America, 1503-1818," by J. Benedict Warren"Religious Chroniclers and Historians: A Summary with Annotated Bibliography," by Ernest J. Burrus, S.J."Bernardino de Sahagun," by Luis Nicolau d'Olwer, Howard F. Cline, and H. B. Nicholson"Antonio de Herrera," by Manuel Ballesteros Gaibrois"Juan de Torquemada," by Jose Alcina Franch"Francisco Javier Clavigero," by Charles E. Ronan, S.J."Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg," by Carroll Edward Mace"Hubert Howe Bancroft," by Howard F. Cline"Eduard Georg Seler," by H. B. Nicholson"Selected Nineteenth-Century Mexican Writers on Ethnohistory," by Howard F. Cline The Handbook of Middle American Indians was assembled and edited at the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University with the assistance of grants from the National Science Foundation and under the sponsorship of the National Research Council Committee on Latin American Anthropology.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.

Volumes 14 and 15 of the Handbook of Middle American Indians, published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909-1979), constitute Parts 3 and 4 of the Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources. The Guide has been assembled under the volume editorship of the late Howard F. Cline, Director of the Hispanic Foundation in the Library of Congress, with Charles Gibson, John B. Glass, and H. B. Nicholson as associate volume editors. It covers geography and ethnogeography (Volume 12); sources in the European tradition (Volume 13); and sources in the native tradition: prose and pictorial materials, checklist of repositories, title and synonymy index, and annotated bibliography on native sources (Volumes 14 and 15). The present volumes contain the following studies on sources in the native tradition:"A Survey of Native Middle American Pictorial Manuscripts," by John B. Glass"A Census of Native Middle American Pictorial Manuscripts," by John B. Glass in collaboration with Donald Robertson"Techialoyan Manuscripts and Paintings, with a Catalog," by Donald Robertson"A Census of Middle American Testerian Manuscripts," by John B. Glass"A Catalog of Falsified Middle American Pictorial Manuscripts," by John B. Glass"Prose Sources in the Native Historical Tradition," by Charles Gibson and John B. Glass"A Checklist of Institutional Holdings of Middle American Manuscripts in the Native Historical Tradition," by John B. Glass"The Botutini Collection," by John B. Glass"Middle American Ethnohistory: An Overview" by H. B. Nicholson The Handbook of Middle American Indians was assembled and edited at the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University with the assistance of grants from the National Science Foundation and under the sponsorship of the National Research Council Committee on Latin American Anthropology.

Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources comprises Volumes 12 through 15 of the Handbook of Middle American Indians, published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909-1979). The Guide has been assembled under the volume editorship of the late Howard F. Cline, Director of the Hispanic Foundation in the Library of Congress, with Charles Gibson, John B. Glass, and H. B. Nicholson as associate volume editors. It covers geography and ethnogeography, especially the Relaciones Geograficas (Volume 12); sources in the European tradition: printed collections, secular and religious chroniclers, biobibliographies (Volume 13); sources in the native tradition: prose and pictorial materials, checklist of repositories, title and synonymy index, and annotated bibliography on native sources (Volumes 14 and 15). Volume 12, which is Part One of the Guide, contains the following: "Introduction: Reflections on Ethnohistory," "Introductory Notes on Territorial Divisions of Middle America," "Viceroyalty to Republics, 1786-1952: Historical Notes on the Evolution of Middle American Political Units," "Ethnohistorical Regions of Middle America," "The Relaciones Geograficas of the Spanish Indies, 1577-1648," "A Census of the Relaciones Geograficas of New Spain, 1579-1616," and "The Relaciones Geograficas of Spain, New Spain, and the Spanish Indies: An Annotated Bibliography," all the foregoing by Howard F. Cline. In addition it includes: "Colonial New Spain, 1519-1786: Historical Notes on the Evolution of Minor Political Jurisdictions" by Peter Gerhard; "The Pinturas (Maps) of the Relaciones Geograficas, with a Catalog" by Donald Robertson; "The Relaciones Geograficas, 1579-1586: Native Languages" by H. R. Harvey; and "The Relaciones Geograficas of Mexico and Central America, 1740-1792" by Robert C. West. The Handbook of Middle American Indians was assembled and edited at the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University with the assistance of grants from the National Science Foundation and under the sponsorship of the National Research Council Committee on Latin American Anthropology.